International Trade ♦ Fall 2025

Domestic Stability and International Trade Order

Sannoy Das

This Article challenges the theoretical frameworks through which we have so far apprehended the crisis of the liberal international trade and economic order, precipitated by relentless unilateral action — whether tariffs or industrial policy — especially in the United States. It argues that the conventional concerns about unilateralism overlook the ways in which unilateralism has been — and can be — a foundation for international order rather than its antithesis.