Yanis Varoufakis shows that the combined effect of all three has left Europe the most shocked and shaken of all.

Carl Bildt considers the implications of the Trump administration's recently released National Security Strategy.

Brahma Chellaney highlights the perils of Chinese infrastructure loans and investment in developing countries.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers the deep, intermediate, and immediate factors behind Russia’s invasion.

Hans Bergstrom explains why the country adopted a lethally misguided approach to COVID-19, resulting in a high death toll.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that four decades of free-market orthodoxy have taken a high toll on democracy.

Nouriel Roubini deconstructs the myth that distributed-ledger technologies will change the world for the better.

After a tumultuous 12 months for the US economy, the coming year may well be marked by even greater upheaval. From the likelihood that President Donald Trump’s tariff chickens will come home to roost to the risk of a stock-market crash, there is good reason…

Ricardo Hausmann urges policymakers to nuture the sense of identity and shared destiny required to sustain collective action.

Noreena Hertz sees several problems with the kind of top-down basic-income schemes proposed by tech industry leaders.

Gemma Cheng'er Deng & Jim O'Neill think the United States and its traditional allies lack a coherent strategy for dealing with emerging powers.

Mekala Krishnan, Annabel Farr and Kanmani Chockalingam estimate the level of investment needed to protect vulnerable places and show why the payoff is much larger.

Harold James points out that the continent has a history of political reinvention, especially following moments of despair.

Sami Mahroum proposes levies on the computational time consumed by AI systems in lieu of unworkable "robot taxes."

Timothy Snyder draws parallels between the US president’s act of war and the history of imperialism and fascism.

Stephen Holmes assesses a policy made possible by the destruction of mechanisms intended to discipline US presidents' power.

Carla Norrlöf thinks the Trump administration has muddied the waters in ways that will make US global leadership costlier.

Yi Fuxian shows how high-level officials were able to obscure the failure of family-planning rules.

Masyita Crystallin, Rachel Glennerster and Masyita Crystallin call on multilateral development banks to commit now to providing at-risk funding for bets on vaccines.