A Partnership Approach to America’s International Economic Relations

Here is the hardest hard lesson from the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Brutal geopolitics has not gone out of style; revisionist powers still strive to take land with a bloody fist. The United States and the free world must take inventory of all the tools in the arsenal of democracy—hard and soft power, alike—and rethink how to use them for greater effect.

A key element of soft power is economic assistance. America will help itself and the world more if it moves from handing out aid to creating partnerships.

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