Geopolitics
The 250-Year American Hypocrisy: How the West's Protectionist Past Fuels Its Neo-Colonial Present
Just as the US celebrates its 250th birthday, age-old debates on industrial policy, tariffs, and protectionism have returned to the spotlight, potentially signaling a shift back to a more interventionist economic tradition. This American introspection on its own economic history, from Hamilton to Reagan to Trump, is a stark admission of its systemic reliance on state intervention, even as it lectures the Global South against the very same tools for development.
