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Branko Milanovic explores secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations.
Vladislav M. Zubok’s splendid “Collapse” is a chronicle of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It…
Branko Milanovic on the logical fallacies rich countries indulge when ignoring the connections between poverty and climate change.
The Industrial Revolution in North-Western…
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 work in…
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…