Corruption, trade disputes, economic decoupling, climate change: these are all examples of how the intersecting effects of economics and politics—often playing out at the frontier between international and domestic policy—affect prospects for reducing international conflict, enhancing cooperation, and improving the capacity of countries around the world to meet the needs of their populations.
Carnegie’s Political Economy Initiative features ongoing efforts to help policymakers better understand these dynamics, as well as the ways in which foreign policy tools, economic statecraft, and governance reform can foster greater economic security and mitigate global tensions. Spanning our programs in Washington and our worldwide network of centers, and featuring scholars with expertise ranging from law to politics to economics to international relations, these research endeavors have the potential to guide key decisionmakers in responding to crises and opportunities and to shape ongoing discussions about critical issues regarding economic statecraft and politics.
Adam Tooze
Nonresident Scholar, Europe Program, Carnegie Europe
Tooze is a nonresident scholar with the Europe Program and Carnegie Europe.
Stewart Patrick
Senior Fellow and Director, Global Order and Institutions Program
Stewart Patrick is a senior fellow and director of the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary areas of research focus are the shifting foundations of world order, the future of American internationalism, and the requirements for effective multilateral cooperation on transnational challenges.
Sinan Ülgen
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe
Sinan Ülgen is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on Turkish foreign policy, transatlantic relations, international trade, economic security, and digital policy.
Zainab Usman
Senior Fellow and Director, Africa Program
Zainab Usman is a senior fellow and inaugural director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Her fields of expertise include institutions, economic policy, energy policy, and emerging economies in Africa.
Peter Harrell
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Peter Harrell is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served as senior director for international economics and competitiveness in the National Security Council during the Biden administration.
Kenji Kushida
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Kenji E. Kushida is a senior fellow for Japan studies in Carnegie’s Asia Program, directing research on Japan, including a new Japan-Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative at Carnegie.
Nur Arafeh
Fellow, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Nur Arafeh is a fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where she is co-leading the program on the political economy of the MENA region. Her research focuses on business-state relations, food insecurity, inequality, peacebuilding strategies, the development-security nexus and Palestinian-Israeli affairs.
Hamza Meddeb
Fellow, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Hamza Meddeb is a research fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he co-leads the Political Economy Program
Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where she focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in democracies experiencing polarization, violence, and other governance problems.
Michael Pettis
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie China
Michael Pettis is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on China’s economy, Pettis is professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets.
Ian Klaus
Founding Director, Carnegie California
Ian Klaus is the founding director of Carnegie California. He is a leading scholar on the nexus of urbanization, geopolitics, and global challenges, with extensive experience as a practitioner of subnational diplomacy.
Christopher S. Chivvis
Senior Fellow and Director, American Statecraft Program
Christopher S. Chivvis is the director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies, and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Robert Greene
Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program and Technology and International Affairs Program
Robert Greene is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Technology and International Affairs Program and Asia Program, focusing on Chinese financial sector trends and on topics at the nexus of cyberspace governance, global finance, and national security.
Maha Yahya
Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs
Ashley J. Tellis is the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in international security and U.S. foreign and defense policy with a special focus on Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Yukon Huang
Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Huang is a senior fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program where his research focuses on China’s economy and its regional and global impact.
Bentley Allan
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program
Bentley Allan is a nonresident scholar in the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Zachary D. Carter
Nonresident Fellow, Global Order and Institutions Program
Zachary D. Carter is a nonresident fellow with the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he analyzes geopolitics through an economic lens.
China’s slowing growth will increasingly impact its economic relations with Africa. Policy directions within African countries and third parties such as the United States will greatly shape how these changes in the China-Africa relationship continue to unfold.
As the BRICS bloc grows to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, this year could bring about greater renminbi use across emerging markets—thanks in part to the growth of renminbi financial channels across BRICS countries.
The Silicon Valley model offers lessons for regions around the world as they look to grow their own startup ecosystems.
The food, energy, and debt crises in the Middle East and North Africa have exacerbated structural economic weaknesses of low- and middle-income countries—particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon—creating mounting pressure on domestic political orders and worsening these countries’ geopolitical marginalization.
How has the war, which has so thoroughly devastated Gaza, affected the economy of Israel and that of the Israeli-occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem)? To address these questions and others, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center is organizing a policy webinar on Thursday, December 21, 2023, at 5 PM Beirut time, 10 AM / DC Time, with Raja Khalidi and Timothy Kaldas.
With financial commitments of over $350 million in investment and $450 million more in financing facilitation, the U.S. Digital Transformation with Africa aims to close the digital gap in Africa through investment across three core areas: the digital economy and infrastructure, human capital development, and the digital enabling environment.
As the BRICS bloc expands, efforts by BRICS policymakers to increase global use of non-dollar currencies—particularly the Chinese renminbi—are accelerating. Washington should take note of how frustrations with the dollar are helping enable the rise of the renminbi in emerging markets and motivating strategic partners like India to push for greater use of non-dollar currencies.
Sharp geopolitical differences have brought U.S.-South Africa relations close to the breaking point. Yet the country remains a key player on the African continent. As the United States revamps its Africa strategy, should South Africa's importance outweigh its disagreements with Washington?
With strategic use of its development finance tools, the United States can promote clean energy manufacturing outside of China and help partner countries in the Global South become more than sources of raw materials.
The U.S.-DRC-Zambia memorandum of understanding demonstrates how the United States aims to counter China and bolster its clean energy supply chains by deepening ties with African nations. Yet how distinct is the U.S. approach from the Chinese approach to such deals?
