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As Xi Jinping takes up a second 5-year term, Jinghan Zeng explores his plans to make his nation great again.
In 1793, in his letter to Britain’s King George III, China’s…
This is the first part of a wide-ranging interview with world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin.
Not long after taking office, it became evident that…
Deepening interdependence, due in part to the success of the postwar order, has created structural gridlock in world politics and contributed to an anti-global backlash across the…
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe (eds). Columbia University Press. 2017.
In The Contradictions…
Expected for over a year, China’s 13th Five-year Plan on International Capacity Cooperation is not forthcoming. When finally released, it will detail China’s trade and…
The Catalan crisis has caught Europe by surprise. Some in Madrid may also have been unprepared. Yet most Catalans – regardless of their views on independence – were not startled…
Mark Nance argues that Europe can be an effective champion of a liberal world order, but only if it ensures that European integration yields a more social political economy…
In the wake of recent events, Nikolaos Karagiannis and C.J. Polychroniou explore what can be done to build the Caribbean’s future resilience to hurricanes.
Hurricanes have…
Branko Milanovic explores the ideal of a world “without injustice of birth”.
A friend sent me this interesting but slightly odd (I have to say so at the outset) article by…
Martin Chungong introduces a campaign to protect democracies' institutions.
Democracy today is widely seen as under siege. We acknowledge this, but a distinction should be made…
In Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Alessandro Vercelli argues that the concepts of freedom which underpin neoliberal economics are at odds with those…
Herman T. Saltonon on the art of teaching international relations in a globalized world.
“Professor, you are biased.” This comment—made by one of my students in the midst of a…
Fumiya Iida explores how close we are to the film's robotic vision.
The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic body…
Viraj Mehta unpicks the potential of India’s ‘unique experiment in human history’.
Those of us who grew up in India in the 1980s, when only one national television channel was on…
Branko Milanovic explores lessons from Fernando Pessoa's 'The anarchist banker'.
It is impossible to spend a few days in Lisbon and to be a compulsive voyeur of bookstores,…