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We live in turbulent times. The world is in the midst of a geopolitical transition marked once again by imperial rivalries and the emergence of dangerous peripheral forces, all…
Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan and the Fate of US Power in the Pacific Century has, according to the numerous blurbs on the cover and comments on the Amazon,…
Branko Milanovic reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay.
I have reviewed Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (OPO)…
Branko Milanovic explores what connects the wave of protests sweeping the world.
“The specter is haunting [the world]. The specter of … [what?]". While Marx and other…
Cornelius Adebahr reflects on America’s political polarization and what it may mean for the future.
Political and societal polarization in the United States is palpable. I visited…
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…