Ever since first the blueprints for monetary union in Europe were drawn up, the United States, considered as a collection of individual states or regions, has served as a benchmark for assessing its feasibility and evaluating alternative policy options.

This essay written by Bruegel Visiting Fellow analyses the central role that Germany has and continues to play in the European Union. The author looks…

After tracing the link between politics and trade over a millennium, KevinO‘Rourke identifies permanent features of international economic relations. His timing is perfect. The crisis…

Ignazio Angeloni believes that the increase in financial interdependence in recent decades has not been matched by sufficient progress in the international coordination among regulatory…

In this piece, which draws on firsthand experience within the Swedish government throughout one of the most dramatic consolidation episodes of the post-WWII period, Jens…

In this lecture, given at Bruegel‘s Annual Meeting in June, 2006, Jeffry Frieden focuses on why the first era of globalisation could not be restored,…