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How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy

Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Daniel W. Drezner loved it
First, it is incredibly accessible to anyone who is well-versed about the international political economy — no mean feat, as someone who has to teach this stuff. Second, it is forthright in explaining, kinda like an IPE Dalton from Road House, that nobody wins a trade war but sometimes they are gonna be fought no matter what, so it’s good to go in fully informed. Third, it contains bits and pieces that even policy wonks will find new and interesting.

on danieldrezner.substack.com · 18 Jun 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.