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Joschka Fischer

Writing for PS since 2006
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Joschka Fischer, Germany’s foreign minister and vice chancellor from 1998 to 2005, was a leader of the German Green Party for almost 20 years.

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  1. The Birth of a New International Order
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    The Birth of a New International Order

    Nov 29, 2022 Joschka Fischer sees global great-power relations taking shape around a Sino-American dominated pentarchy.

  2. All Eyes on the Franco-German Relationship
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    All Eyes on the Franco-German Relationship

    Nov 7, 2022 Joschka Fischer explains why the cantankerous old couple will have to figure out how to work more closely together.

  3. The Cold War Is Back
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    The Cold War Is Back

    Oct 3, 2022 Joschka Fischer explains what the new Russian military and nuclear threat means for the European Union.

  4. The End of Stability
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    The End of Stability

    Aug 29, 2022 Joschka Fischer sees the current confluence of global crises as part of a larger systemic and historic rupture.

  5. The End of Contemporary History
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    The End of Contemporary History

    Aug 1, 2022 Joschka Fischer thinks we are witnessing the denouement of the Pax Americana that shaped world affairs for more than 70 years.

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    Resentment on the Western Front

    Sławomir Sierakowski thinks the Polish public needs a more open and honest conversation about refugees before resentment spirals.
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    Crypto’s Well-Worn Path to Crisis

    Xavier Vives writes that, despite the novelty of the assets, the narrative of FTX’s collapse was established long ago.
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    The Unavoidable Crash

    Nouriel Roubini anticipates a stagflationary debt crisis, owing to a dangerous combination of inflation and over-borrowing.
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    War Over Taiwan?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers whether a deterrence arrangement that has worked for 50 years is still sufficient.
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    The Contested Fed

    James Livingston

    By all accounts, central banks – particularly the Fed, because the dollar is still the world’s dominant currency – already act as investment authorities. But their recent bailouts have exacerbated economic inequality, and have done little or nothing to address climate change.

     reviews three books that, each in its own way, reveal a central truth about the world’s leading central bank.
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    The Economics of Mainstreaming Climate Action

    Jean Pisani-Ferry & Selma Mahfouz identify the risks and short-term costs associated with the energy transition over the next decade.
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    Killing Twitter

    Antara Haldar explains what Elon Musk fundamentally misunderstands about the platform – and about free speech.
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    The Napoleons of Big Tech

    Bill Emmott

    Recent events in the technology sector suggest that investors and lenders should be demanding a premium to cover the risk that a star entrepreneur will become an egomaniacal dictator. With each business cycle, it seems, old lessons must be relearned.

     sees in the industry’s harsh reckoning this year lessons that apparently can’t be learned often enough.
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    The Crypto Emperor’s New Clothes

    The collapse of several crypto platforms this year – including the spectacular crash of the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX – has raised fundamental questions about the credibility of a digital innovation once hailed as the key to democratizing finance. Has crypto finally been exposed as a scam, or will a new, stronger crypto industry emerge from the current turmoil?

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