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329 commentaries, Updated on 27 Aug 2024

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Adekeye Adebajo Africa’s Future Hinges on Revitalizing Multilateralism
  2. Vera Songwe, et al. Curbing Debt-Fueled Unrest in Emerging Markets
  3. Paola Subacchi A Growth Agenda for the G20
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63 commentaries, Updated on 19 Aug 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Joschka Fischer This Time Is Different in the Middle East
  2. Shlomo Ben-Ami Gaza and the Apocalypse
  3. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women
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115 commentaries, Updated on 5 Sep 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Helmut K. Anheier Will the German Center Hold?
  2. Jorge Heine What a Trump Victory Would Mean for Latin America
  3. Debasish Roy Chowdhury Nothing Has Changed in India
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138 commentaries, Updated on 21 Aug 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Laura Alfers, et al. Protecting Informal Workers from Extreme Heat
  2. Anna Husarska A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women
  3. Yasmine Sherif Giving Afghan Girls the Education They Demand
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35 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Christian Catalini, et al. Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators
  2. Elisabeth Carpenter, et al. Why Most Firms Fail to Capitalize on New Technologies
  3. Jordan Bleicher, et al. The Geopolitical Imperative to Upgrade the Dollar
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94 commentaries, Updated on 3 Sep 2024

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Nadia Calviño, et al. Small-Island Solidarity and Climate Common Sense
  2. Laura Carvalho The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth
  3. Mary Robinson Rich Countries Must Meet Their Biodiversity Financing Pledges
Putin's War on Ukraine

458 commentaries, Updated on 6 Sep 2024

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Samuel Charap, et al. How to Make the Most of the Kursk Gambit
  2. Chris Patten The Enduring Lessons of Stalin’s Wartime Endgame
  3. Roger Myerson, et al. How NATO Can Help End the Ukraine War
The Light Bulb

61 commentaries, Updated on 5 Aug 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  2. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
  3. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All
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52 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. Kehinde A. Togun What’s Driving Africa’s Protests?
  2. Anna Husarska A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women
  3. Nicholas Reed Langen British Judges Are Carrying Water for China
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112 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Angela Huyue Zhang Authoritarian Countries’ AI Advantage
  2. Peter G. Kirchschläger Beware of Big Tech Steering AI Regulation
  3. Diane Coyle Will the AI Revolution Lead to Greater Prosperity?
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255 commentaries, Updated on 3 Sep 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Brahma Chellaney The West’s Stealthy Assault on Democracy
  2. Daron Acemoglu The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown
  3. Mark Jones How Fascism Happens
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137 commentaries, Updated on 14 Aug 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  2. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
  3. Antonio Zappulla To Protect Democracy, Protect Exiled Journalists
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    The Improving Economics and Worsening Geopolitics of Clean Energy

    Daniel Gros warns that political obstacles are preventing the widespread uptake of low-cost green technologies.
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    Industrial Policy’s Deceptive New Clothes

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    If the new "industrial strategy" is offering ideas for better public governance, it is useful. But it becomes positively dangerous when it turns to the private sector, where state interventions inevitably undermine competition, disrupt price signals, and dampen the motivation to innovate.

    sees little reason to support the case for renewed government interventions in the private sector.
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    A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

    Dani Rodrik

    It may be impossible simultaneously to combat climate change, boost the middle class in advanced economies, and reduce global poverty. Under current policy trajectories, any combination of two goals appears to come at the expense of the third.

    weighs the trade-offs between combating climate change, global poverty, and rich countries’ middle-class decline.
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    The Choice Confronting American Voters

    Koichi Hamada warns that electing a president who refuses to accept defeat could jeopardize not only US democracy.
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    Economic Theory for the Real World

    James K. Galbraith

    Although policies based on mainstream neoclassical economics, famously enshrined in the Washington Consensus, have clearly failed, economic theory has remained in a state of paralyzed confusion. What has been missing is a full shift to modern modes of thought informed by contemporary science.

    offers a new conceptual framework based on twenty-first-century science and simple observation.
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    The Climate Stakes of the US Election

    Joseph E. Stiglitz explains what another Donald Trump presidency would mean for the country’s economic and energy security.
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    Climate Security and Geopolitics

    Ian Bremmer

    Although multilateral efforts to address climate change are not well served by deepening geopolitical rivalries or the apparent trend toward global economic fragmentation, that doesn’t mean governments have abandoned the pursuit of net-zero emissions. Instead, the process has become more competitive – and more complex.

    considers the international political dynamics of current energy, trade, and environmental policies.
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    China’s Climate Balancing Act

    Zongyuan Zoe Liu explains how decarbonization and climate security have been integrated into the government’s broader agenda.
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    The Climate-Conflict Nexus

    Kyungmee Kim shows how wars and geopolitical tensions are hindering progress on climate-change mitigation and adaptation.

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