Can Foreign Investment Shape a Country's Trade Policy?

What 180,000 foreign investment projects reveal about corporate influence

Nov 14 • 

Heagen Bell

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What If the Public Controls Sanctions More Than We Think?

New research upends the conventional wisdom that foreign policy belongs to elites alone

Nov 7 • 

Kristy Ingles-Nguyen

6

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October 2025

Do Chinese Factories Change American Minds?

New research shows new investment reduces threat perceptions while acquisitions don't

Oct 31 • 

Charlie Andrade

6

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China's Belt, America's Chips, and the Economics of Strategic Leverage

The economic mechanics behind modern geopolitical coercion

Oct 24 • 

Zach Dreier

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Who Bore the Brunt? Mapping America’s Uneven Exposure to the China Shock

A state-by-state look at how Chinese imports reshaped American jobs and industries

Oct 17 • 

Lance Lang

6

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How Power Shapes what China Reads

As Chinese leaders consolidate authority in their second terms, objective foreign news coverage gives way to propaganda.

Oct 10 • 

Anya M

6

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America First and the Dismantling of Trade Diplomacy

Distinguished KU Law Professor Raj Bhala on the mechanisms, motives, and costs of America's protectionist turn

Oct 3 • 

Lance Lang

6

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September 2025

The Politics of De-Risking

As Washington and Tokyo tighten controls on trade with China, their approaches reveal both shared anxieties and strikingly different priorities.

Sep 26 • 

Lizzy Bender

6

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Assessing the Costs of America’s Protectionist Turn

Tracing back trade expansion

Sep 16 • 

Lance Lang

7

2

How Corporate Influence Reacts to U.S.–China Trade Policy

New Trade War Lab data sheds light on how American firms are lobbying the USTR.

Sep 10 • 

Stephen Zaken

9

3

Why Farmers Kept Planting Crops China Wouldn’t Buy

How partisan loyalty shaped farmers’ planting decisions during the U.S.–China trade war.

Sep 2 • 

Henry Yim

9

4

August 2025

How Multinationals Managed the Trade War

Exit, voice, and loyalty in an era of rising protectionism.

Aug 28 • 

Rohan Enjeti

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