Beijing's Bismarckian Ghosts: How Great Powers Compete Economically

My colleagues Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and I together published “Beijing’s Bismarkian Ghosts: How Great Powers Compete Economically” in the Fall 2018 issue of The Washington Quarterly. In the article, we show great power economic rivalry is nothing new, and that the Anglo-German economic contest a century ago holds eerie parallels to today’s US-China rivalry.