World War Trade: Conflict, Containment, and the Emergent World Trading Order

2026

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1) This book explains how escalating trade wars and industrial policies are reshaping the global trading system, moving from an era of openness to one of strategic competition.
2) * Explores the historical roots of the shift from trade as a tool for mutual gain to an instrument of geopolitical competition.
* Analyzes the impact of US tariffs, Chinese export controls, and industrial policy on global trade and supply chains.
* Discusses how countries are adapting to this new environment through regionalism and new forms of cooperation to build a reconfigured, rules-based trading order.
3) World War Trade, geopolitical competition, tariffs, export controls, regionalism

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