Disruption in the Global Economic Order — Bretton Woods No More
About this episode
The episode discusses the current state and future of the global economic order, questioning whether it is truly rupturing or merely being re-routed.
For eighty years, a single architecture has run the global economy with important institutions at the helm, including the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and the US dollar at the centre of it all. Today, that architecture is under more strain than at any point in living memory: tariff walls are rising, finance is being turned into a weapon, and supply chains are being torn up and re-stitched along the lines of who trusts whom. The fashionable verdict is that the post-war order is rupturing. Is it? In this opening episode of Turbulence, Anupam Manur is joined by Narayan Ramachandran, who isn't entirely convinced by this framing. The order isn't rupturing, he argues; it's being impeded, selectively slowed and re-routed rather than dismantled, and renegotiated into something more multipolar and higher-friction. The conversation separates what's genuinely eroding from what's merely noise, asks what the next world order will look like, and weighs where India stands in the great churn.
People in this episode
Host: Anupam Manur
Guest: Narayan Ramachandran
Topics covered
- global economy
- Bretton Woods
- multipolar world
- supply chains
- international relations
- economic order
Keywords
- global economy
- Bretton Woods
- IMF
- World Bank
- WTO
- India
- supply chains
- multipolar
- economic order
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: IMF, World Bank, WTO
Places: India, US
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