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Faced with external and internal threats, Iran is resorting to old-style nationalism. This is not new per se, explains Cornelius Adebahr, but often overlooked in the wider debate…
Branko Milanovic on the materials each dictator had to work with and what they meant for their legacies.
Tito and Franco could not be, in many ways, more different: they were the…
Scott L. Montgomery explores the Kingdom's nuclear ambitions.
Much has been made in recent weeks about the Trump Administration’s attempted nuclear trist with the Saudis.…
One of the most striking features of our era is the widening gap between rich and poor. In fact, wealth inequality may be higher today than any other era, although we lack the…
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, 2018. Demain la Chine : démocratie ou dictature? Collection Le Débat, Gallimard.
Should you write reviews of bad books? Obviously not if the book is so bad…
Branko Milanovic on Jason Hickel's important considerations for those interested in long-term global poverty rates.
I became somewhat peripherally involved in the…
With the climate change challenge growing more acute with every passing year, the need for the adoption of a new political economy that would tackle effectively both the…
Branko Milanovic on Marxism's religion-like ability to address fear.
A couple of days ago, I was writing a part of my forthcoming book (with the provisional, and not…
A quick glance around the world today reveals that politics almost everywhere — from the federal government shutdown in the US to the power struggle in Venezuela and from Macron’s…
Branko Milanovic on why orderly states often tolerate vice.
When you travel from a less orderly country (which is practically every country in the world save Singapore…