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The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

April 3, 2025
Keywords: Foreign Affairs, with Abraham Newman

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost

Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump, they risk losing access to one of their biggest markets: Europe.

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The Twilight of America’s Financial Empire – with Abraham Newman

January 24, 2020 Foreign Affairs (online) with Abraham Newman

When Iraqi lawmakers voted to expel U.S. forces from the country earlier this month, the Trump administration’s response was swift and forceful: it refused to withdraw and, for good measure, threatened financial retaliation, saying it would freeze Iraq’s accounts at the U.S. Federal Reserve. The threat seems to have been effective. Although Iraqi officials still ...

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American Influence: Ireland Must Focus on Economic Security as Arena of Vulnerability

September 2, 2023 Irish Times

After decades of neglect, Ireland is finally debating national security. Unfortunately, we don’t just need to catch up with the rest of the world, but understand how our economic growth strategy involved national security choices that are coming back to bite us. Market-based globalisation is being eaten alive as powerful countries contend for domination. That ...

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