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Patrick Artus

Will economic and financial integration continue to guide relations between countries and thereby prevent conflicts?

Since the early 1990s, different regions and countries have become considerably more integrated economically and financially. For a long time, it was thought that this economic and financial integration would prevent conflicts, bring about an alignment of the interests of different countries, and bring political and social systems closer together. The war in Ukraine and the crisis with Russia seem to show the opposite. Could other major countries enter into conflict despite their economic and financial ties? This is unlikely , given the very high cost of severing these ties. The increase in the weight of trade between OECD countries and emerging countries and China is very significant. Only Japan has had limited trade integration over the past 30 years. Financial integration affects all regions, but to a lesser degree China.
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