Part 1 of this series analyzed the concept of geopolitics, and traced its history as personified by five would-be “grandmasters of the universe.” This article concludes the series by examining the geopolitics of US President Donald Trump’s trade war. The key player here is a dissident economist and failed California politician named Peter Navarro, who […]
Author Archives: Alfred McCoy
Alfred W McCoy is the Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the now-classic book The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, which probed the conjuncture of illicit narcotics and covert operations over 50 years, and the recently published In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power.
