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Political Economy Initiative
About the Project

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.

Our team

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

Director, Africa Program

Zainab Usman is a senior fellow and the inaugural director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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.