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A paradox: the more “communist” the sharing license used in the digital commons (no restrictions on sharing), the more capitalist the practice (multinationals can use…
Michael Tierney reviews the patchy record of international sanctions regimes and proposes a way forward.
Since the end of the Cold War, the West has increasingly utilized…
A wide range of politicians and media outlets have described the alleged Russian interference in the last US presidential election (by way of hacking) as representing a direct…
“What is happening in the politics of the US particularly, but also in other countries, is that identity in a form of nationality or ethnicity or race has become a proxy for…
As we move towards a jobless world, Davos participants give their views on what it may mean for our wellbeing and our identities.
“If you went back 10,000 years and spoke…
When a system calls itself democracy, but forces increasing parts of the demos (people) to live under poverty, its own central concept gradually becomes hollow.
Since early…
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
How does received knowledge vis-a-vis our financial system emerge and change? Here, Michael Lee explores how ideas about the economy have come into existence and gained acceptance…
"The Chinese economy is undergoing unprecedented and profound changes."
To open up or to close? To advance or go back? The global economy is currently at the crossroads…
Zygmunt understood the crisis of a social democracy built on solid jobs, fixed identities and bounded within nation states, and paved the way for thinking about the need for…