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    Ending the UK’s Permanent Silly Season

    Jim O'Neill

    After years in the political wilderness, the UK Labour Party is now far ahead in opinion polls, with sensible plans for improving the country's economic performance. But to translate promises into results, any future government will have to do something about the elephant in the room: chronic under-investment.

     explains what it will take for any political party to restore hope in the country's long-term economic future.
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    Can National Reconciliation Defeat Populism?

    Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk

    For the US, Slovakia's general election may produce another unreliable allied government. But instead of turning a blind eye to such allies, as President Joe Biden has been doing with Poland, or confronting them with an uncompromising stance, the US should spearhead efforts to help mend flawed democracies.

     reflect on the outcome of Slovakia's general election in the run-up to Poland's decisive vote.
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    Freedom Without Justice

    Slavoj Žižek considers what an Albanian Marxist philosopher can tell us about liberty in today's world.
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    Not Destined for War

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. rejects historical analogies implying that zero-sum conflict between the US and China is inevitable.
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Is “Peace Through Commerce” Dead?

    Harold James doubts that new conflicts and rivalries justify a full-scale rejection of European-style economic engagement.
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    Affirmative Action Under Siege

    Ashwini Deshpande shows how the supreme courts in India and the US have undermined efforts to address serious discrimination.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian traces the deep roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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  1. Ending the UK’s Permanent Silly Season
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    Ending the UK’s Permanent Silly Season

    Oct 3, 2023 Jim O'Neill explains what it will take for any political party to restore hope in the country's long-term economic future.

  2. Freedom Without Justice
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    Freedom Without Justice

    Oct 2, 2023 Slavoj Žižek considers what an Albanian Marxist philosopher can tell us about liberty in today's world.

  3. Can National Reconciliation Defeat Populism?
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    Can National Reconciliation Defeat Populism?

    Oct 2, 2023 Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk reflect on the outcome of Slovakia's general election in the run-up to Poland's decisive vote.

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    Not Destined for War

    Oct 2, 2023 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. rejects historical analogies implying that zero-sum conflict between the US and China is inevitable.

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    Is “Peace Through Commerce” Dead?

    Oct 2, 2023 Harold James doubts that new conflicts and rivalries justify a full-scale rejection of European-style economic engagement.

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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Financing Our Survival

    Vera Songwe explains what it will take to mobilize capital for the net-zero transition worldwide.
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    The Roots of Polish Populism

    Sławomir Sierakowski interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about Law and Justice's electoral successes and hold on power on the eve of Poland's general election.
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    Mónica Araya on electric vehicles, US climate policy, the EU-Mercosur trade deal, and more

    Mónica Araya welcomes progress toward zero-emission transport, laments the fossil-fuel industry’s outsize influence over governments everywhere, argues that European climate action should be based on a people-centered political narrative, and more.
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    Chile’s 9/11, Fifty Years Later

    Sebastián Edwards offers a chronicle of the military coup and its morally complicated economic legacy.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

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    Fully Replenishing the Green Climate Fund

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