Karthik Sankaran is a senior research fellow in geoeconomics in the Global South program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

July 5, 2025

Analysis

Monetizing Primacy

Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity

On the question of the dollar, Trump administration policy can be characterized as confused. It wants a weak dollar to spur reindustrialization in the US and a strong dollar to offset any inflationary pass-through from tariffs. But it is also…