The United States and China have the two largest national economies in the world and are also the world’s leading proponents of Economic Nationalism. In this context, this term refers to the use of national policies to promote exports while creating barriers to imports and is a twenty first...

The election of Donald J. Trump to the US Presidency coincided with the US adoption of an “America First” policy in trade. This policy reflects an underlying theory of economic nationalism that is fundamentally at odds with the current approach of the multilateral trading system established...

In 2016, both the election of President Trump and the UK's vote to leave the European Union represented important shifts in the approach of both countries to their international trading relationships. In the case of the US, the Trump administration has sought to target tariffs against countries...