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  1. Fintan O'Toole is the Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University, columnist at the Irish Times, and the author of Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.  


  2. Jenny Odell is an artist, educator, and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.

  3. Toriola Oladeji is Co-CEO of Vinsighte Limited.

  4. Alassane Ouattara

    Alassane Ouattara

    1 Commentary

    Alassane Ouattara is President of Ivory Coast.

  5. Mancur Olson

    Mancur Olson

    Writing for PS since 1996
    2 Commentaries

    Late Professor of Economics at the University Maryland; Author; Head of the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector at University Maryland.

  6. Viktor Orbán

    Viktor Orbán

    Writing for PS since 1999
    2 Commentaries

    Viktor Orbán is Prime Minister of Hungary.

  7. Dara O'Rourke

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Politics at MIT.

  8. Martha Brill Olcott

    Martha Brill Olcott

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise was published in 2001.

  9. Claus Offe

    Claus Offe

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Political Science, Humbolt University, Berlin.

  10. Kenichi Ohmae

    Kenichi Ohmae

    Writing for PS since 2002
    4 Commentaries

    One of the world's leading business strategists. He is President of Ohmae & Associates and has advised many of Japan's governments.

  11. Peter Osterman

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Pseudonym of a senior European diplomat with long experience in China.

  12. Ike Okonta

    Ike Okonta

    Writing for PS since 2002
    15 Commentaries

    Ike Okonta, an Abuja-based policy analyst and writer, is currently a fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York.

  13. Manuel Orozco

    Manuel Orozco

    Writing for PS since 2002
    2 Commentaries

    Manuel Orozco is a senior researcher at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration.

  14. Lucjan T. Orlowski

    Lucjan T. Orlowski

    Writing for PS since 2002
    2 Commentaries

    Leading Polish economist, Professor of Economics at Sacred Heart University.

  15. David Onoprishvili

    David Onoprishvili

    Writing for PS since 2003
    1 Commentary

    David Onoprishvili is a former Minster of Finance of Georgia and now teaches at Vanderbilt University.

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    India Has Arrived

    Ana Palacio charts the country’s transition from passive observer to active shaper of international affairs.
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    Climate Action Demands Global Fraternity

    Mia Amor Mottley argues that human solidarity must underpin scientific, technological, financial, and diplomatic measures.
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    Normalizing the Normalization of the Far Right

    Jan-Werner Mueller

    History and social science research show that voters take their cues from elites. When politicians who are seen as mainstream treat an extremist far-right party as normal, public opinion will tend to follow; and once such normalization has happened, as in Europe today, it is virtually impossible to undo.

    explores the most common justifications that politicians offer for working with anti-democratic forces.
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    Tackling Climate Change in the Age of Trump

    Richard Haass & Carolyn Kissane

    Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Paris climate agreement, rescinded emissions-reduction targets, and ended climate-related initiatives. But a range of potential initiatives that are consistent with the Trump administration’s priorities could still slow climate change.

    argue that reconciling what is desirable with what is feasible requires a new approach.
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    The Fight for Syria

    Shlomo Ben-Ami worries that Israel and Turkey, with their clashing ambitions, could undermine the country’s stability.
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    How to Counter Trump's Tariffs Productively?

    Shang-Jin Wei proposes steps that allies and rivals alike can take to mitigate the effects of American trade policies.
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    Weaponizing Data Against Democracy

    Jayati Ghosh explains why and how authoritarian leaders like Narendra Modi hide or manipulate official figures.
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    Alternatives to Trump’s Russia Appeasement

    Harold James explains how France and Britain can guarantee Ukraine’s security now that America has effectively surrendered.
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    Germany at a Crossroads

    Ulrike Malmendier, et al. urge policymakers to pursue bold structural reforms, rather than clinging to an outdated growth model.

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