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    The Water-Security Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al.

    Increasingly severe water shortages represent a human-made crisis that can be resolved through human interventions. The situation demands new thinking about the economics of this critical resource and how to manage it through mission-oriented strategies that span all levels of governance.

     call attention to a global problem that demands far more attention from policymakers at all levels.
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    What Is Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy?

    Ian Bremmer

    Although Kamala Harris is largely aligned with Joe Biden on many global and strategic issues, her unique worldview promises a distinct form of leadership on the international stage. Not only would US foreign policy shift under a Harris administration; it could change in highly consequential ways.

     considers how the Democratic presidential nominees' views compare to Joe Biden's.
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    The High Cost of the Netherlands’ Mpox Vaccine Hoarding

    Gordon Brown condemns European populists’ failure to heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    How to Make the Most of the Kursk Gambit

    Samuel Charap & Charles A. Kupchan think Ukraine and its partners have a big opportunity to start working toward a negotiated end to the war.
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    US Foreign Policy in 2025

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. compares the two presidential candidates’ attitudes and positions on major global issues.
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    The US Election Will Overturn Europe’s Strategic Status Quo

    Mark Leonard worries that Europeans are unprepared for whoever will succeed US President Joe Biden.
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    Misreading the Impact of Monetary Policy

    Adam Posen worries that markets and some Federal Reserve officials are misassessing the effects of policy-rate hikes.
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    The European Green Deal Is Already Benefiting Consumers

    Agustín Reyna rejects the misguided notion that voters are indifferent to environmental concerns.
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    The Enduring Lessons of Stalin’s Wartime Endgame

    Chris Patten reflects on how the events leading up to the end of World War II helped shape today’s international order.
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    The High Cost of the Netherlands’ Mpox Vaccine Hoarding

    Sep 6, 2024 Gordon Brown condemns European populists’ failure to heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    How to Make the Most of the Kursk Gambit

    Sep 6, 2024 Samuel Charap & Charles A. Kupchan think Ukraine and its partners have a big opportunity to start working toward a negotiated end to the war.

  3. The US Election Will Overturn Europe’s Strategic Status Quo
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    The US Election Will Overturn Europe’s Strategic Status Quo

    Sep 6, 2024 Mark Leonard worries that Europeans are unprepared for whoever will succeed US President Joe Biden.

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    The Water-Security Crisis

    Sep 6, 2024 Mariana Mazzucato, et al. call attention to a global problem that demands far more attention from policymakers at all levels.

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    The European Green Deal Is Already Benefiting Consumers

    Sep 6, 2024 Agustín Reyna rejects the misguided notion that voters are indifferent to environmental concerns.

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    The Water-Security Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al.

    Increasingly severe water shortages represent a human-made crisis that can be resolved through human interventions. The situation demands new thinking about the economics of this critical resource and how to manage it through mission-oriented strategies that span all levels of governance.

     call attention to a global problem that demands far more attention from policymakers at all levels.
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    The Chinese Overcapacity Puzzle

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    PS editors, Yu Yongding, Arvind Subramanian, Zhang Jun, Yi Fuxian

    Several developments in recent years, from sustained renminbi appreciation to increasingly aggressive Western tariffs, should have eroded China’s global manufacturing dominance, but have not. Why has China’s share of global manufacturing exports continued to rise, and what might turn the tide?

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    How Fascism Happens

    Mark Jones revisits Hitler's rise to power now that political violence and attacks on democracy are intensifying.
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    Fawaz A. Gerges on Iran, Gaza, US foreign policy, and more

    Fawaz A. Gerges argues that a crisis of US democracy is blocking substantive change in America’s Middle-East policy, highlights the disastrous legacies of US interventions in Iran and Guatemala, fears that Israel’s war in Gaza will engulf the region, and more.
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    Is Democracy Really in Retreat?

    Helmut K. Anheier, et al. trace the contours of the global ideological battle between liberalism and the “autocratic sufficiency thesis.”
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    US-China Relations after America’s Election

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    PS editors , Ian Bremmer , Nancy Qian , Stephen S. Roach

    After decades of facilitating and even encouraging China’s rise, the United States’ dramatic shift to a policy of containment continues apace, with both Republican and Democratic administrations imposing sweeping tariffs and other trade restrictions. How will the upcoming US presidential election affect the bilateral relationship, and what will this imply for the American, Chinese, and global economies?

It is both the best and the worst of times for democracy – or at least for voting. Although a record-breaking four billion people across 76 countries will have cast ballots in elections this year, democratic institutions are increasingly under strain, and leading watchdogs warn of a broad-based global trend toward “autocratization.”

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    The European Green Deal Is Already Benefiting Consumers

    Agustín Reyna rejects the misguided notion that voters are indifferent to environmental concerns.
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  3. Shang-Jin Wei Would Harris or Trump Be Better for the World Economy?
  4. Andrew Sheng, et al. Is Gross National Happiness the Way Forward?

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  3. Ian Bremmer What Is Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy?
  4. Helmut K. Anheier Will the German Center Hold?

  1. Gordon Brown The High Cost of the Netherlands’ Mpox Vaccine Hoarding
  2. Yasmine Sherif Giving Afghan Girls the Education They Demand
  3. Gro Harlem Brundtland Recommitting to Pandemic Preparedness
  4. Nurul Izzah Anwar Transforming Health Care in Southeast Asia

  1. Agustín Reyna The European Green Deal Is Already Benefiting Consumers
  2. Nadia Calviño, et al. Small-Island Solidarity and Climate Common Sense
  3. Elisa Belfiori, et al. Rethinking Emissions Targets in Developing Countries
  4. Lili Fuhr, et al. Marine Geoengineering Will Not Save the Oceans or the Climate

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  2. Angela Huyue Zhang Authoritarian Countries’ AI Advantage
  3. Peter G. Kirchschläger Beware of Big Tech Steering AI Regulation
  4. Diane Coyle Will the AI Revolution Lead to Greater Prosperity?

  1. Peter Singer, et al. Protesting Ethically
  2. Edoardo Campanella Venice’s Beauty Curse
  3. Robert Skidelsky The Enduring Appeal of Live Performance
  4. Anna Husarska A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Adekeye Adebajo Africa’s Future Hinges on Revitalizing Multilateralism
  2. Vera Songwe, et al. Curbing Debt-Fueled Unrest in Emerging Markets
  3. Paola Subacchi A Growth Agenda for the G20

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  2. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
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  3. Tom Achoki, et al. Preparing Now for the Next Disease X