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Open QuestionsTrump’s neo‑royalist world order and ‘weaponised interdependence’: Abraham Newman
American political scientist on how ‘interdependence’ can be exploited as part of the rivalry between major powers
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Abraham Newman is an American political scientist and a professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research focuses on the ways in which economic interdependence and globalisation have transformed international politics. Along with Henry Farrell, he is co-author of the book Underground Empire: How America Weaponised the World Economy, published in 2023. In this interview, he discusses how the concept of weaponised interdependence has been shaping global geopolitics, particularly in US President Donald Trump’s second term.
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You talk about an “age of weaponised interdependence”. Why do you say that? Why has it become so central today?
Many people have a caricature in their head of how globalisation works: we created all these global economic networks, which create so many actors that power gets decentralised. Because of that great power conflicts are over and instead, firms are in control of this very decentralised world.
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