Blavatnik Book Talk: How To Win a Trade War – A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World @BlavatnikSchool

Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

We used to take trade for granted. Trillions of dollars of goods and services crossed borders each year. Nobody paid too much attention: it just worked.

Now, surging oil prices can hit your mortgage. Trump’s latest tariff announcement can crash markets and ruin your pension. Brexit can sever Britain from its closest trading partners. Chinese restrictions can bring the West’s car production to a crashing halt. Curbs on trade in cutting-edge chips could determine who wins the AI race. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Join authors Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown, in conversation with Professor Emily Jones, as they discuss their new book How To Win a Trade War: A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World.

Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk

Blavatnik Book Talk: How To Win a Trade War – A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World

$Blavatnik Book Talk: Our Dollar, your problem Join one of the world’s foremost observers on the global economy, Professor Kenneth Rogoff, as he discusses his new book Our Dollar, Your Problem, with Professor of Economics Andrea Ferrero from Oxford’s Department of Economics. The event is moderated by the School’s Professor of Economics and Public Policy Clare Leaver. In Our Dollar, Your Problem, Professor Rogoff, the Maurits C. Boas Professor of Economics at Harvard University and former International Monetary Fund chief economist, explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured, animating the remarkable postwar run of the dollar—how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro—and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc. Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/$

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