If the EU were a soccer team, it would not lose games for lack of a game plan or due to inadequate capacity. The problem is that the team as a whole is not playing cohesively, and all of the top players are struggling individually, owing to messy problems at home.
As the deal struck at COP24 in Katowice shows, world leaders can address myriad shared challenges when they embrace compromise and cooperation. But they will also require something more: new ideas about how global governance should be organized.
highlight solutions to the threats posed by a growing volume of household refuse, especially plastic.
asks why the far right, even in Israel, has made George Soros public enemy number one.
anticipates significant impediments to Europe's economic performance in 2019 and beyond.
argues that any political settlement must strengthen the state so that it can maintain civil order.
explains why, despite record-low unemployment, wages for American workers are still stagnating.
discuss the challenges facing the world in 2019.
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