David Karas is a postdoctoral researcher in international and comparative political economy.

12.13.2023

• David Karas

Industrial Policy Isn’t a Panacea for Rebuilding Organized Labor

Faced with China’s rise, Western states are turning from free trade dogmas to active industrial policies. This turn may offer opportunities for labor — but as the electric auto industry shows, it is also producing a harmful logic of national rivalries.

08.08.2023

• David Karas

Germany’s Model for European Capitalism Is Exhausted

Through Angela Merkel’s reign, neoliberal European integration provided the scaffolding for Germany’s export-led growth. But war on the continent and a series of crises have tested this model’s limits, producing splits within Olaf Scholz’s government.