Adam Tooze

Friday, 4 July, 2025

Friday, 6 June, 2025

EU defence

The emperor has no tanks

Europe doesn’t need more spending to transform its moribund armed forces — it needs more co-operation across borders

Friday, 2 May, 2025

US

Remembering history in Trump’s America

The 80th anniversary of the second world war comes as conventional narratives are being revised

Friday, 28 March, 2025

Foreign aid

Aid’s grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating

Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms

Friday, 7 March, 2025

US foreign policy

US global leadership has never been plain sailing

Trump is the heir to a national-populist strain that runs deep in American politics

Monday, 3 February, 2025

Global Economy

The future of international economic institutions is up for grabs

Preserving the status quo on global development will not work

Thursday, 5 December, 2024

Climate change

Only China can now lead the world on climate

As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality

Friday, 1 November, 2024

Global Economy

Poor nations are choking on debt — we must grasp the solutions

Political instability and meagre investment hobble large parts of the world

Monday, 7 October, 2024

Global Economy

The old US economic policy is dying and the new cannot be born

Industrial rivalry and tensions with China frame a confused debate about the pressures of globalisation

Friday, 30 August, 2024

Foreign aid

Rich countries tilt the scales when it comes to aid

Large-scale western support for Ukraine contrasts with smaller efforts for poor countries that are in dire need

Thursday, 8 August, 2024

Central America

Kamala Harris must face America’s nimbyism head on

Deep policy fatigue has led to failure on even modest improvements in Central and Latin American economies

Thursday, 4 July, 2024

Renewable energy

Stifling China’s green energy boom would be a disaster

Does the government in Beijing have the courage to throw its weight behind what business is already doing?

Saturday, 1 June, 2024

German politics

Germany’s fractious coalition dithers as the heat rises in Europe

Optimists have faith that the EU will always pull through but crisis-fighting depends on choices made in Berlin

Sunday, 12 May, 2024

US dollar

Dangers of dollar nationalism hang over the world economy

Even more serious than Fed rate rises would be a politically driven devaluation of the US currency

Saturday, 30 March, 2024

Health

Vaccine investment is a no-brainer — so why aren’t we doing it?

Not only is the cost-benefit ratio unbeatable, but not to undertake this spending is to court disaster

Tuesday, 5 March, 2024

US foreign policy

America’s economic security doctrine has taken on a darker hue

Washington seeks to defend the rules-based order with unruly, self-interested interventions

Friday, 26 January, 2024

Global Economy

The IMF is an anchor adrift in a changing world economy

Western countries are over-represented but there are formidable obstacles to reform

Friday, 26 January, 2024

FT Swamp Notes

Biden and the spectre of polycrisis Premium

So many crises assail the world that their spilling into each other and merging is a genuine risk

Friday, 22 December, 2023

Geopolitics

2023 shows that economic growth does not always breed peace

Global interconnection did produce real change, but not only in the ways the west hoped

Wednesday, 8 November, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

There will be no peace in the Middle East without politics

That is the lesson that all sides should draw from the postwar settlement in Europe

Thursday, 19 October, 2023

Unhedged

India at the centre: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook Premium

India’s geopolitical and economic pull is growing

Thursday, 5 October, 2023

Unhedged

The Biden scorecard: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook Premium

The first of three collaborations with historian Adam Tooze

Sunday, 1 October, 2023

German politics

Germany must invest to neutralise the far-right threat

A once successful growth model has run out of steam and migrants are needed to fill labour market shortages

Monday, 28 August, 2023

Foreign aid

The west has failed to keep its promises on aid

US and EU attempts to respond to China’s Belt and Road Initiative have fallen dismally short

Thursday, 27 July, 2023

European Union

Europe should not be too relaxed this summer as big challenges await

From migration to Ukraine, Europe’s future worry list runs much deeper than fiscal rules