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Описание: Mathias Döpfner, Chairman & CEO of Axel Springer SE, the biggest digital publisher in Europe and owner of U.S. media brands Insider, Morning Brew, and Politico, joins The Realignment. Mathias is the author of a new book: The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators. Marshall and Mathias discuss his proposal for a new trade regime based upon a values-based alliance of democracies, the cost of doing business with dictators, Germany's revamped post-Ukraine invasion foreign policy, and how encounters with figures from Vladimir Putin to Jack Ma shaped the book's perspective.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Why did Mathias write this book?
3:53 - Meeting Putin
11:20 - How are dictators able to leverage economic power?
16:00 - Alliances of Democracies
18:51 - Existing institutions
21:36 - German pacifism
26:34 - Why did the West not use deterrence against Putin?
29:26 - Carbon emissions
32:16 - Cultural aspects of trade
36:24 - China
39:19 - Post Cold War failures
45:36 - American hypocrisy
49:02 - Looking towards the future
51:54 - Advice for politicians