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Beginning with South Asia, Scott L. Montgomery and Thomas Graham, Jr. introduce a two-part essay taking stock of contemporary prospects of nuclear conflict.
Our world in the…
Branko Milanovic explores the meaning of recent protests in Chile.
It is not common for an OECD county to shoot and kill 16 people in two days of socially motivated riots. (…
Branko Milanovic on why the 'crisis of capitalism' is really about its own rapid expansion.
There has recently been an avalanche of articles and books about the ¨…
Branko Milanovic explores a less described aspects of the dictator's mode of governance.
When I was recently in St Petersburg, I bought in one of the very nice…
What are the founding principles of U.S. foreign policy? Was the U.S. ever isolationist as mainstream diplomatic history claims? And what about Donald Trump’s foreign…
Climate change represents the biggest existential crisis that has ever faced the human race. However, we have yet to come to terms with the moral, political and economic…
Scott Montgomery explores “nuclear engineering” or, put another way, the strange history of attempts to use nuclear weapons for good ends.
On first hearing it, I lost my…
Branko Milanovic argues that the international community has an important role to play in halting Argentina's economic decline.
It is by pure coincidence that I…
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier. 2018. Penguin. ISBN: 0062748653
Paul Collier’s new book “The future of capitalism” is a very hard book to…
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers. Harvard University Press. 2017.
This is not a book about Chinese history as such. It is a…