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“Third Nations Can Piece Together a Ruptured World Order” by Danny Quah Mar 2026 Synopsis: Third nations have long been expected to endure the consequences of major-power actions.

“AI inversion.

Negotiating an Inelastic US: Why G-minus is the Realist Outcome by Danny Quah Oct 2025 Synopsis: If the US only ever responds inelastically, its diminished international relevance is the expected Realist outcome.

IMF got me rethinking multilateralism: How nations need to worry about aligning incentives, not about size or power by Danny Quah Sep 2025 Synopsis: Multilateralism benefits everyone but its costs are asymmetrically distributed.

Economic Development Needs To Be More Than Just Capacity Building by Danny Quah Sep 2025 Synopsis: Policy discourse in economic development conventionally focuses on capacity building: improving health, raising skills and education, building infrastructur…

Multilateralism Can Survive the Loss of Consensus by Danny Quah Sep 2025 Synopsis: International cooperation can advance, even when the most powerful players are at odds.

Pricing the China Shock: The Unintended Consequences of Sectoral Trade Protectionism by Danny Quah Jul 2025 Synopsis: The China Shock can be measured in terms of import flows or, alternatively, as a price effect.

Dealing with a Two-Shock International System by Danny Quah May 2025 If we’ve grown used to the China Shock—“a tsunami of Chinese manufactures that compete ferociously with our own”—let’s also call the Trump Administration’s continuing turmoil what it is:…

Resilience through cooperation: With or without multilateral consensus by Danny Quah Mar 2025 How can the global economy and its institutions build international resilience through global cooperation?

Boao Forum: The Tragedy of Multilateralism for the Global South by Danny Quah Mar 2025 At Boao Forum 2025, I spoke on a panel on Modernization of the Global South.