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BKHS Perspectives #05_2024 | A trade paradigm for the age of geoeconomic competition

A trade paradigm for the age of geoeconomic competition: Not economic, but human security 11. Mar 2024

From:  Tobias Lentzler , Elisabeth Winter

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We need a human-centred approach to globalisation that does not only benefit the few, but the many. In our latest BKHS Perspectives, Dr Elisabeth Winter and Tobias Lentzler of the BKHS programme "Global Markets and Social Justice" demand a new trade paradigm for the age of geoeconomic competition. They argue that not economic security, but the concept of human security helps to build a sustainable, equitable and resilient global economic order. The policy brief continues the conversation on "Remaking Globalisation!", which we started last year with the Helmut Schmidt Lecture 2023 and our BKHS Magazine #3.

 

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Tobias LentzlerResearch assistant in the Global Markets and Social Justice programme line

After studying philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Witten/Herdecke and an independent research stay at Yale University, Tobias Lentzler worked as a project manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung from 2019 to 2022. Since August 2022, he has been doing his doctorate at Chemnitz University of Technology in the field of intellectual history. From December 2022 to March 2024, he worked as a research assistant in the Global Markets and Social Justice programme line.

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Dr Elisabeth WinterDeputy Managing Director and Programme Director Global Markets and Social Justice

Elisabeth combines economic security and geoeconomics with issues of social inclusion and international cooperation. Her research focuses on EU-U.S. trade policy and the distributional effects of international economic policy.

 

She studied in Nuremberg, Berlin, and at Indiana University, and earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin. Her professional career has taken her to the German Marshall Fund and to various research positions at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington, D.C., as well as at Princeton University and Georgetown University.

 

Elisabeth teaches International Relations and U.S. Foreign Economic Policy at HTW Berlin and the Free University of Berlin.