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The Global Transactionalism Playbook

Has diplomacy become a series of transactions?

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Yannick Scheidegger
Feb 13, 2025
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Trump and Putin spoke on the phone, agreeing to start talks on how to end the war in Ukraine. This shows a broader reality: diplomacy today is increasingly transactional. Trump’s transactionalism is often put as uniquely American, but it reflects a broader global trend. China uses debt-trap diplomacy to expand influence. India hedges between the West an…

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