The New Washington Consensus: Implications of U.S. Economic De-Risking from China

Naoise McDonagh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia. He holds a PhD in economic sociology from the University of Auckland and an MA in economic geography. His research focuses on how geopolitical tensions in an era of high economic integration are transforming the world economy, including regulatory reorganization of global supply chains for national security reasons, new export control and investment screening regimes. Prior to entering academia, Dr McDonagh served two years in the Irish Defence Forces, and worked in the private sector for over half a decade. He is a former President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, South Australia, and a former research scholar at the Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide. Dr McDonagh regularly publishes his research in international academic journals, leading policy forums and contributes to domestic and international media coverage of his research interests.

Jens Hillebrand Pohl is a multidisciplinary legal scholar and political scientist with over 14 years of experience in academia and practice. He is an adjunct professor at Maastricht University and the United Nations University, where he teaches and researches the intersection of law and geoeconomics, legal geography, the (geo)politicization of the legal order, and the (mis)use of the legal system as an instrument of geostrategic power. He is also a doctoral research scientist at Tampere University, where he analyzes lawfare and geo-legal power from a political science perspective. An experienced attorney, having practiced before U.S. federal and state courts in New York and for EU institutions, Jens holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a MSc in Economics and Business from Stockholm School of Economics, and is pursuing two PhDs in law and political science at Maastricht University and Tampere University, respectively. He is the founding series editor of Springer Studies in Law & Geoeconomics and a former article editor of the Harvard International Law Journal.

Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek is a Visiting Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs at the Center on US Politics and Power. She is a Clarendon Scholar and doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is researching the political economy of multi-stakeholder extraction projects. She previously earned an MPhil, with distinction, in Russian and East European Studies at Oxford. Cordelia has held researcher positions with the US Institute of Peace, the Center for European Policy Analysis, and the Polish Institute of International Affairs.