Adam Tooze is a nonresident scholar with the Europe Program and Carnegie Europe. Adam is also the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and director of the European Institute at Columbia University. Prior to Columbia, he was the Barton M. Biggs Professor at Yale University.
He teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history, his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual, and military history across a canvass stretching from Europe to across the Atlantic.
Adam’s first book, Statistics and the German State: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge, appeared in 2001. Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was published in 2006, and Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931 in 2014. His most recent book was Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018).
For these books, Adam won the Leverhulme Prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize, and the LA Times History Prize. His books have been featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs, and the Economist.
He has written and reviewed for the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph, the TLS, the LRB, the New Left Review, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Dissent, Die Zeit, Spiegel, TAZ, and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Hundreds of millions of people experience an exclusion of a more elementary and devastating kind than any protectionist tariff or tech sanction. They lack the means to join the world economy on anything other than abject terms.
Analyzing Bob Woodward's new book, War, and the end of Bidenism.
In China, Ukraine and the Middle East, Washington will say that it is responding to aggression. But rather than working consistently for a return to the status quo it seems to actually be raising the stakes.
Industrial rivalry and tensions with China frame a confused debate about the pressures of globalization.
Optimists have faith that the EU will always pull through but crisis-fighting depends on choices made in Berlin.
Will Palestinians ever recover from the famine and destruction?
China is not competing with India for the attentions of Western hedge funds. And though FDI to China has fallen off a cliff, given the vast stock of foreign capital already committed to China, it will take years before the total foreign commitment to India matches that already committed to China.
These are anxious times in Germany. Two issues dominate the headlines: economic malaise, and the alarming surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany, which at about 22 per cent now outpolls each of the three governing parties.
After last week’s BRICS meeting in South Africa, the question hangs in the air: what does the west have to offer a new, multipolar world?
But when you emerge from the state of emergency, as Europe seems to be doing this summer, it forces the question: what crisis comes next and what will be the solution?
