Divide and conquer: Trump’s class war with Adam Tooze
Mark Leonard welcomes Adam Tooze to unpack the role of class in the second Trump presidency, and its implications for the US and Europe
Experts & Staff
Adam Tooze
Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History & Director of the European Institute, Columbia University
Biography
Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of history at Columbia University and director of the university’s European Institute. He previously held the Barton M Biggs professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the director of international security studies. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Cambridge as reader in modern history at Jesus College. He is the author of numerous studies on German and economic history, and his work has won several awards, including a Leverhulme prize fellowship. He holds a PhD in economic history from the London School of Economics.
In the media
Showing solidarity and respecting human dignity means not to close down the space for debate and reflection about the possibility of genocide
Adam Tooze responds to a statement by German academics on the situation in Israel and Gaza
In the climate scenarios we are heading towards, with all the hard choices about decarbonisation, adaptation, loss and damage, these choices will fundamentally be made in Asia
Adam Tooze writes on industrial policy and decarbonisation
[It is] the latest round in the decades-long struggle to reconcile Italy’s position as a member of the inner circle of Europe—and the euro—with the shifting currents of Italian democracy
ECFR Council member Adam Tooze on the meaning of Italy’s upcoming presidential elections beyond the figure of Mario Draghi
A conservative in the German finance ministry is a systemic risk for Europe
ECFR Council member Adam Tooze explains why the future of Europe is at stake in the fight for Germany’s finance ministry
Next Generation EU is many things, but it is not a stimulus package. (…) What the European economy needs in 2021 and 2022 is an immediate boost to speed up recovery from the shock of the pandemic
ECFR Council member Adam Tooze calls for new economic stimulus packages, a common debt and a paradigm shift in Germany to recover from the pandemic.