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  1. Ian Bremmer

    Ian Bremmer

    Writing for PS since 2006
    38 Commentaries

    Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

  2. Barak Barfi

    Barak Barfi

    Writing for PS since 2011
    28 Commentaries

    Barak Barfi is a former research fellow at New America and a former visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  3. Indermit Gill

    Indermit Gill

    Writing for PS since 2013
    9 Commentaries

    Indermit Gill is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics at the World Bank.

  4. Lenny Mendonca

    Lenny Mendonca

    Writing for PS since 2014
    53 Commentaries

    Lenny Mendonca, Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, is a former chief economic and business adviser to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

  5. Hugo Drochon

    Hugo Drochon

    Writing for PS since 2016
    15 Commentaries

    Hugo Drochon, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, is the author of Nietzsche’s Great Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016).

  6. Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Writing for PS since 2019
    12 Commentaries

    Irena Grudzińska Gross is a professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a 2018 Fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation. Her books include Miłosz and the Long Shadow of War (Pogranicze, 2020), and Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (Yale University Press, 2009).

  7. Aziz Huq

    Aziz Huq

    Writing for PS since 2021
    7 Commentaries

    Aziz Huq, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, is the author of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  8. Samia Suluhu Hassan

    Samia Suluhu Hassan

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Samia Suluhu Hassan is President of the United Republic of Tanzania.

  9. Anastassia Fedyk

    Anastassia Fedyk

    Writing for PS since 2022
    8 Commentaries

    Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

  10. Ilona Sologoub

    Ilona Sologoub

    Writing for PS since 2022
    10 Commentaries

    Ilona Sologoub is Editor of VoxUkraine.

  11. Nana Akufo-Addo

    Nana Akufo-Addo

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Nana Akufo-Addo is President of Ghana.

  12. Guillermo Ortiz

    Guillermo Ortiz

    Writing for PS since 2023
    3 Commentaries

    Guillermo Ortiz, a former finance minister of Mexico and governor of Banco de Mexico, is Co-Chair of the G30 Working Group on Latin America.

  13. Tatyana Deryugina

    Tatyana Deryugina

    Writing for PS since 2024
    2 Commentaries

    Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  14. Enrique Krauze

    Enrique Krauze

    Writing for PS since 2024
    4 Commentaries

    Enrique Krauze is a historian, essayist, publisher, and the editor of the cultural magazine Letras Libres. His books include Mexico: Biography of Power (2008) and Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America (2011).

  15. Tawakkol Karman

    Tawakkol Karman

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni human-rights activist, is the first woman from the Arab world to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

  16. Mary-Ann Etiebet

    Mary-Ann Etiebet

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Mary-Ann Etiebet is President and CEO of Vital Strategies.

  17. Christy Hoffman

    Christy Hoffman

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Christy Hoffman is General Secretary of UNI Global Union.

  18. Andrew Gallucci

    Andrew Gallucci

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Andrew Gallucci, a former illicit finance and macroeconomic official at the United States Treasury Department and Central Intelligence Agency, is Director of Regulatory Strategy at Circle.

  19. Xianghong Wang

    Xianghong Wang

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Xianghong Wang is a professor in the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China.

  20. Markéta Gregorová

    Markéta Gregorová

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Markéta Gregorová is a member of the European Parliament.

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    Chris Patten emphasizes the country’s ability to avoid the divisive politics currently plaguing other liberal democracies.
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    Ian Bremmer explains how external dynamics led to renewed fighting in the country's 13-year-long civil war.

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