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Nina Hall asks what the New Zealand election can tell us about global political shifts?
Yesterday New Zealand’s new government was sworn into office. At its helm is a…
Konstantinos Efstathiou explores the prize winner's contributions.
Martin Sandbu in the FT lists some of Thaler’s seminal contributions to behavioural economics, which reveal…
Civil society must keep the dialogue over migration open, to retain relevance and to survive.
The so-called European migration crisis and the populist political backlash that…
US President Donald Trump recently criticised the EU for being protectionist, and several political figures in the UK have suggested that Brexit will allow the country to remove…
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…