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  1. Yu Yongding

    Yu Yongding

    Writing for PS since 2010
    77 Commentaries

    Yu Yongding, a former president of the China Society of World Economics and director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, served on the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China from 2004 to 2006. 

  2. Yoon Young-kwan

    Yoon Young-kwan

    Writing for PS since 2008
    30 Commentaries

    Yoon Young-kwan, a former South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade, is Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

  3. Yang Yao

    Yang Yao

    Writing for PS since 2011
    20 Commentaries

    Yang Yao is Liberal Arts Chair Professor at the China Center for Economic Research and the National School of Development at Peking University.

  4. Kandeh K. Yumkella

    Kandeh K. Yumkella

    Writing for PS since 2009
    13 Commentaries

    Kandeh K. Yumkella, a member of Sierra Leone’s Parliament, is Founder and CEO of the Energy Nexus Network. He is a former United Nations under-secretary-general and chair of UN-Energy and a former CEO and a special representative of the secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All.

  5. Eduardo Levy Yeyati

    Eduardo Levy Yeyati

    Writing for PS since 2010
    12 Commentaries

    Eduardo Levy Yeyati, a former chief economist of the Central Bank of Argentina, is Dean of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Faculty Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Policy, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  6. A.B. Yehoshua

    A.B. Yehoshua

    Writing for PS since 2008
    11 Commentaries

    A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s preeminent novelists. His latest book is Friendly Fire.

  7. Daniel Yergin

    Daniel Yergin

    Writing for PS since 2014
    7 Commentaries

    Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global, is the author of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Penguin, 2021) and the co-author of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (Free Press, 2002), which was made into a PBS/BBC series of which he was executive producer.

  8. Linda Yueh

    Linda Yueh

    Writing for PS since 2011
    4 Commentaries

    Linda Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is the author, most recently, of The Great Economists

  9. Michael Young

    Michael Young

    Writing for PS since 2005
    4 Commentaries

    Michael Young is the opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper and the author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle.

  10. Li Yong

    Li Yong

    Writing for PS since 2013
    4 Commentaries

    Li Yong is Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

  11. Grigory Yavlinsky

    Grigory Yavlinsky

    Writing for PS since 2002
    4 Commentaries

    Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko.

  12. Miao Yanliang

    Miao Yanliang

    Writing for PS since 2019
    3 Commentaries

    Miao Yanliang, a member of the China Finance 40 forum, is an adjunct professor at Peking University’s National School of Development. 

  13. Viktor Yushchenko

    Viktor Yushchenko

    Writing for PS since 2000
    2 Commentaries

    Victor Yushchenko is a former president of Ukraine (2005-10).

  14. Muhammad Yunus

    Muhammad Yunus

    Writing for PS since 2013
    2 Commentaries

    Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the founder of Grameen Bank.

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    Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

    Ana Palacio applauds the pragmatic coalition-building, especially by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, that enabled the deal.
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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

    worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.
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    Trump and the Risk of a US Debt Default

    William L. Silber thinks the former president would be even more reckless if awarded another term this year.
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    Europe’s Red Tape Is Helping Russia

    Laurence Boone & Nicu Popescu propose a European Defense Production Act to help fast-track processes for public procurement and spending.
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    What to Look for in Trump’s First Trial

    Eric Posner

    The intricate legal issues and colorful characters in Donald Trump's criminal trials will undoubtedly keep the media and the viewing public enraptured for months to come. But when it comes to the 2024 election, all that really matters is how the defendant appears to a narrow sliver of undecided voters.

    points out that optics, more than the law or the facts, will be what matters most for the election.

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