How to Win A Trade War
Harvard Kennedy School
Littauer Building L-9-malkin Penthouse
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 29, 2026, 12 – 1:15 p.m. 
Global trade is no longer operating quietly in the background. Tariffs, export controls, supply-chain disruptions, and competition over critical technologies now shape markets, international alliances, and the global economy.
Join Soumaya Keynes, columnist and podcaster at the Financial Times, and Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, for a discussion of their new book, How to Win a Trade War. Drawing on history and current events, they examine how the global trading system is changing, what the West can learn from China, and what growing economic rivalry means for governments, businesses, and individuals.
The conversation will be moderated by Harvard faculty Gordon Hanson and Robert Lawrence.
This event is hosted by Harvard’s Center for International Development in partnership with Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Reimagining the Economy and will be held in a hybrid format. All are welcome. Harvard ID holders are encouraged to attend in person, while non-HUID guests are invited to join via livestream or access the event recording afterward.
Gazette Classification: Conferences
Organization/Sponsor: Reimagining the Economy, and the Center for International Development
Speaker(s): Chad Bowen, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow PIIE, host of Trade Talks podcast, Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Robert Lawrence, Professor of International Trade and Investment and as Faculty Chair of The Practice of Trade Policy executive program, HKS, Soumaya Keynes, Economics columnist Financial Times and host of The Economics Show
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Contact Info: Crystal Kirabo - [email protected]161-799-8261
Harvard Key Required: Yes
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