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What Friendshoring Means for Global Supply Chains

James Gordon | Raconteur | 03/30/2023

The Biden administration’s latest geopolitical strategy is to prioritise trading with ‘trusted allies’. But in a highly complex and interconnected world, would such a move even work? Free trade has…

Beware the Misleading Narrative on Globalization’s Retreat

Simon Evenett | Institute for Management Development | 12/30/2022

Part of the fallout from today’s p...

The Hidden Costs of Friend-shoring

Halit Harput | Hinrich Foundation | 11/15/2022

Since friend-shoring was added to the US trade policy lexicon, little has been r...

Will Friend-Shoring Deliver?

Halit Harput | St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade | 08/24/2022

While the notion of friend-shoring is relatively new, th...

Weak Links in Finance and Supply Chains are Easily Weaponized

Henry Farrell & Abraham L. Newman | Nature | 05/09/2022

Russian sanctions highlight how network anal...

From Sanctions to Semiconductor Resilience and Security

Laura Tyson and John Zysman | Project Syndicate | 03/22/2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine has highlighted...

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