Paul Blustein is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has written about economic issues for more than 40 years, first as a reporter at leading news organizations and later as the author of several critically acclaimed books. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, he spent most of his career reporting for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. His books chronicle international financial crises and major developments in globalization and trade; his sixth book, published in September 2019, is Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System (CIGI Press, 2019). A resident of Kamakura, Japan, he is currently working on a book about the U.S. dollar and challenges to its international dominance including the emergence of new monetary technologies.
