Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 November 2022
Guest blogger Gregory Chin, Mayling Birney Global Scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, discusses China’s approach…
24 November 2022
Currently 26 billionaires have the same wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people on the planet. Capitalism has been around for such a long time that it is hard for people even to…
22 November 2022
Scott Montgomery argues that whether Trump runs in 2024 or is replaced, the Trump era is unlikely to end anytime soon. We in the U.S. are being urged to believe that the country…
22 November 2022
The Wire case is yet one more example of Modi's regime trying to undermine the media landscape and, indeed, destroy dissenting media. Since the end of the Cold War, hybrid…
14 November 2022
Fritz Bartel (2022) The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press.  The turning point in the economic fortunes of…
25 October 2022
Since the mid-1990s, the United Nations has been launching global climate summits — called COPs — which stands for Conference of the Parties. Last year was the 26th annual summit…
19 October 2022
Branko Milanovic warns that those who argue that the West should abandon globalization must explain such a move to the rest of the world. I went to Rana Faroohar’s book party in…
18 October 2022
The emerging global divide may be geopolitical in nature, but its effects are felt widely, from companies closing to citizens collecting wood for the winter. Time for foreign…
03 October 2022
Branko Milanovic - by way of Ricardo's letters - reminds us of the limits of our knowledge and economics. While redrafting the chapter on Ricardo in my forthcoming book “Through…
29 September 2022
Branko Milanovic looks into Russia's past foreign policy to uncover superficial similarities and stark differences with the present. The Moscow-backed Kharkov…