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  1. Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Writing for PS since 2002
    257 Commentaries

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr., an emeritus professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a former US assistant secretary of defense, is the author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020) and A Life in the American Century (Polity Press, 2024).

  2. Aryeh Neier

    Aryeh Neier

    Writing for PS since 1999
    63 Commentaries

    Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is author of The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Princeton University Press, 2012).

  3. Helga Nowotny

    Helga Nowotny

    Writing for PS since 2005
    9 Commentaries

    Helga Nowotny is a former president of the European Research Council and Professor Emerita of Science and Technology Studies at ETH Zurich.

  4. Ifeanyi M. Nsofor

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor

    Writing for PS since 2019
    8 Commentaries

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor, a Senior New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute, is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at George Washington University and an Innovation Fellow at PandemicTech.

  5. Carla Norrlöf

    Carla Norrlöf

    Writing for PS since 2020
    8 Commentaries

    Carla Norrlöf, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

  6. Kanayo F.  Nwanze

    Kanayo F. Nwanze

    Writing for PS since 2010
    7 Commentaries

    Kanayo F. Nwanze is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the first recipient of the Africa Food Prize.

  7. Sania Nishtar

    Sania Nishtar

    Writing for PS since 2013
    7 Commentaries

    Sania Nishtar, former special assistant on poverty alleviation and social protection to the prime minister of Pakistan, is former chairperson of the Punjab Ehsaas Program.

  8. Esther Ngumbi

    Esther Ngumbi

    Writing for PS since 2017
    7 Commentaries

    Esther Ngumbi is Assistant Professor of Entomology and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  9. Piroska Nagy Mohácsi

    Piroska Nagy Mohácsi

    Writing for PS since 2019
    6 Commentaries

    Piroska Nagy Mohácsi is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  10. Junaid Nabi

    Junaid Nabi

    Writing for PS since 2018
    6 Commentaries

    Junaid Nabi, a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, is a member of the Working Group on Regulatory Considerations for Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization.

  11. Paulina Neuding

    Paulina Neuding

    Writing for PS since 2011
    5 Commentaries

    Paulina Neuding is an editorial writer for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and a columnist for the Danish newspaper Berlingske.

  12. Sam Nunn

    Sam Nunn

    Writing for PS since 2010
    4 Commentaries

    Sam Nunn, a former Democratic US senator, is Co-Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

  13. Ghia Nodia

    Ghia Nodia

    Writing for PS since 2008
    4 Commentaries

    Ghia Nodia is President of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development in Tbilisi, Georgia.

  14. Vyacheslav Nikonov

    Vyacheslav Nikonov

    Writing for PS since 2000
    4 Commentaries

    Vyacheslav Nikonov, one of Russia's leading political scientists, is President of the Politika Foundation, Moscow. He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov.

  15. Emma Navarro

    Emma Navarro

    Writing for PS since 2019
    4 Commentaries

    Emma Navarro is Vice President of the European Investment Bank.

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

    Stephen S. Roach

    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

    explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

    urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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