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Will Europe Lead or Lag? Will Europe Lead or Lag?
- Josep Borrell ,
- Sigmar Gabriel ,
- Maciej Kisilowski ,
- Jan-Werner Mueller ,
- Lucrezia Reichlin ,
- Yanis Varoufakis ,
- Anna Wojciuk
In the absence of a strong, coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the job of leading the world out of the crisis remains vacant. Should the European Union, seeking to position itself as a diplomatic superpower between the hard powers of China and America, nominate itself for the position?
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What History Can Teach Us About COVID-19
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Ebola Lessons for Fighting COVID-19 -
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The Two Pandemics
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A Greater Depression? A Greater Depression?
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Capitalism’s Triple Crisis Capitalism’s Triple Crisis
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This Time Truly Is Different This Time Truly Is Different
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The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19 The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19
& call for a worldwide ban on “wet markets,” where animal viruses can mutate quickly and leap to humans.
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What Trump Needs To Say What Trump Needs To Say
Apr 3, 2020 & draft a sample presidential address to build national solidarity against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How COVID-19 Is Transforming Manufacturing How COVID-19 Is Transforming Manufacturing
Apr 3, 2020 anticipates a robot-driven surge in reshoring and production in the advanced economies.
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Can Liberal Democracy Survive COVID-19? Can Liberal Democracy Survive COVID-19?
Apr 3, 2020 warns that no recent challenge has posed as profound a threat to the Western model as the current pandemic.
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Is This China’s Global Leadership Moment? Is This China’s Global Leadership Moment?
Apr 3, 2020 urges the country’s rulers to use the COVID-19 pandemic to rebuild relations with the United States.
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Will Europe Lead or Lag?
- Josep Borrell ,
- Sigmar Gabriel ,
- Maciej Kisilowski ,
- Jan-Werner Mueller ,
- Lucrezia Reichlin ,
- Yanis Varoufakis ,
- Anna Wojciuk
In the absence of a strong, coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the job of leading the world out of the crisis remains vacant. Should the European Union, seeking to position itself as a diplomatic superpower between the hard powers of China and America, nominate itself for the position?
The Next Epicenters
- Roberto Chang,
- Denis Chopera,
- Jayati Ghosh,
- Martín Guzmán,
- Ricardo Hausmann,
- Célestin Monga,
- Yik-Ying Teo,
- Andrés Velasco,
- Kevin Watkins
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed health systems and shut down economies from China to Europe to the United States. But the virus could be even more lethal for the vulnerable developing countries of the Global South.
The Post-Pandemic World
- Kemal Derviş,
- Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg,
- Federica Mogherini,
- Raghuram G. Rajan,
- Kevin Rudd,
- Sebastián Strauss,
- Arvind Subramanian,
- Gernot Wagner
As the COVID-19 outbreak worsens, many fear that it will not only exact a terrible human and economic toll, but also that it will deepen today’s crisis of globalization and global governance. But the pandemic might yet shake up international politics for the better.
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Renewing Europe
Mar 4, 2019
To commemorate its founding 25 years ago, PS is republishing a selection of commentaries written since 1994.
In the following commentary, Emmanuel Macron called on EU citizens to focus on three goals ahead of the critical European Parliament election in May 2019.
Comments From: Chris Patten, Diane Coyle, Clemens Fuest, Stefan Gerlach, Anatole Kaletsky, Christopher Smart, Ana Palacio, Mark Leonard, Edoardo Campanella, Lucrezia Reichlin, Daniel Gros, Éloi Laurent, Jacek Rostowski, Helmut Anheier, Erik Berglöf, Carl Bildt, Gene Frieda.
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How COVID-19 Is Transforming Manufacturing
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The Priority for the Social-Distancing Period
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Can Liberal Democracy Survive COVID-19?
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How Democracies Can Beat the Pandemic
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The Boredom Pandemic
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Ebola Lessons for Fighting COVID-19
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Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19
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Why America Is Losing to COVID-19
Mar 31, 2020
Sustainability Now
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Tackling Climate Change with COVID-19 Urgency
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The World Must Not Forget Climate Change
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Will China’s Wildlife-Consumption Ban Work?
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A Green Reboot After the Pandemic
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The COVID-19 Cash Out
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A Silent Hero of the Coronavirus Crisis
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Technology for All
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It’s Now or Never for National Data Strategies
Feb 26, 2020
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Pandemics and Progress
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How to Design a Lockdown
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Our Finest Hour
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The African Century
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Africa’s Litigated Democracy
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A World Without AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
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Pay-As-You-Go for African Development
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Press Released
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China’s Great Leap into Epidemic
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The New Wave of Middle-East Media Repression
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The Demonization of Journalists Must End
Jan 9, 2020
Trump, Trade, and China
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Trump’s Backward March on Trade
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Why a Cool War May Be Worse than a Cold One
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The Case for Old-Fashioned Tariff Cuts
Nov 27, 2019