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Martha Molfetas argues that governments continue to pick up the bill for the fossil fuel industry's destructive greed.
It’s not new news, fossil interests continue to stymie…
Alfredo Toro Hardy analyses where Latin America belongs.
In his seminal book The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington makes a distinction…
Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni argue that there is a stark disconnect between diplomatic gestures and tangible outcomes between Tehran and Riyadh. This stagnation raises…
Branko Milanovic on the joys of bookstores.
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor…
Cornelius Adebahr argues that Rome holds lessons for those worried by Europe's over centralising tendencies.
67 years ago today, on 25 March 1957, Europe’s…
Before we begin, I should clarify that this is a framework proposed in the abstract and does not represent the views or approaches (or any approaches that have been seriously…
Markus H.-P. Müller argues that when it comes to AI and ESG we need to get used to living in a state of policy flux on both issues.
A question I am often asked, because I…
Shahram Akbarzadeh, Amin Naeni, Ihsan Yilmaz and Galib Bashirov detail new research on digital authoritarianism and the role of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in Iran.
The…
In response to recent interest, Branko Milanovic explores whether Burnham’s ideas have stood the test of time.
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I…
Alfredo Toro Hardy analyses the risks of war between China and the U.S. over Taiwan.
For several decades, America’s policy towards Taiwan was based on so called “strategic…