DANNY QUAH

DANNY QUAH is Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Danny Quah on Rethinking Multilateralism

DANNY QUAH September 17, 2025

What happens when the great powers that have been supporting the multilateral system decide it’s not working for them anymore? Danny Quah is the Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore. In this podcast, he says that while economics and geopolitics worked together to build the multilateral rules-based system, they are now working together to break it apart.

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