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364 commentaries, Updated on 23 May 2023

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. Takatoshi Ito What Did the Hiroshima G7 Summit Accomplish?
  2. Carl Bildt The High Stakes of NATO’s Vilnius Summit
  3. Beata Javorcik The Eurasian Leaks in the West’s Russia Sanctions
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134 commentaries, Updated on 31 May 2023

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

  1. Sławomir Sierakowski Poland's Electoral Inquisition
  2. Nicholas Reed Langen The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination
  3. Nicholas Reed Langen Law’s Struggle for Dignity
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884 commentaries, Updated on 25 May 2023

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

  1. Scott Fulford Saved by the Pandemic?
  2. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. How Much Work Is Enough?
  3. William A. Haseltine Remembering the Pandemic
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14 commentaries, Updated on 21 Mar 2022

As the world changes rapidly, so does the nature of the risks we face. Yet our models for mitigating security threats have largely failed to keep up. …

  1. Lolwah Al-Khater, et al. Building the Green-Recovery Consensus
  2. Kemal Derviş, et al. Will Ukraine's Tragedy Spur UN Security Council Reform?
  3. Thitinan Pongsudhirak Southeast Asia's New-Old Cold War
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48 commentaries, Updated on 3 Mar 2023

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. Bogolo Kenewendo The Climate-Security Failure
  2. Hindou Ibrahim The Best Way to Preserve Nature Is Also the Fairest
  3. Mo Ibrahim What Climate Justice Means for Africa
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99 commentaries, Updated on 25 May 2023

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

  1. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. How Much Work Is Enough?
  2. Natalia Kanem Backsliding on Maternal Mortality
  3. Christy Braham Who Gets Squeezed by Austerity?
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15 commentaries, Updated on 9 May 2023

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

  1. Simon Johnson Simon Johnson on stablecoins, artificial intelligence, inequality, and more
  2. Tomicah Tillemann, et al. America’s Failing Approach to Digital Assets
  3. Dante Alighieri Disparte Digital Assets and American Power
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19 commentaries, Updated on 24 Nov 2021

In the run-up to the first-ever Nobel Prize Summit, Project Syndicate – in partnership with the Nobel Foundation, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Im…

  1. Johan Rockström, et al. Green Business After COP26
  2. Johan Rockström, et al. Deciding Humanity’s Future
  3. Bryan Doerries The Tragedy of Climate Change
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276 commentaries, Updated on 30 May 2023

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

  1. Amadou Hott, et al. Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa
  2. Nate D.F. Allen, et al. Why US Tech Giants Need Africa
  3. William Ruto Walking Our Talk on Climate Action
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123 commentaries, Updated on 15 May 2023

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

  1. Anya Schiffrin Journalism Fights Back
  2. Jan-Werner Mueller Can Journalists Be Activists?
  3. Maria Ressa, et al. Tyranny’s Propagandists Are Winning
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295 commentaries, Updated on 1 Jun 2023

The challenges facing developing countries – from providing clean water to fighting infectious diseases – are jeopardizing their economic growth prospects, …

  1. Oyeronke Oyebanji Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine
  2. Natalia Kanem Backsliding on Maternal Mortality
  3. Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah The Only Way to Eliminate Polio
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43 commentaries, Updated on 17 Oct 2022

PS commentators weigh in on the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and the return of the Taliban two decades after the group was ousted from pow…

  1. Gordon Brown, et al. Afghanistan’s Girls and Women Fight Back
  2. Carl Bildt Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War?
  3. Brahma Chellaney The Afghan Abyss
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    Revisiting the Behavioral Revolution in Economics

    Antara Haldar assesses the legacy of the intellectual challenge to the view that rational self-interest guides our actions.
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    New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions

    Yanis Varoufakis shows how an AI-driven biomedical breakthrough could rob workers of what little power they have left.
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    Globalization’s Warring Narratives

    Harold James examines the analytical disagreements that are hampering management of an unavoidable phenomenon.
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    The Digital Economy’s New Monetary Imperative

    Piroska Nagy Mohácsi

    In a rapidly digitalizing world, central banks are staring down a future in which they may lack the tools necessary to manage crises, and in which they may no longer be able to protect their monetary sovereignty. They should recognize that digital currency is a source of institutional salvation.

    thinks governments must embrace central bank digital currencies or risk a fundamental loss of control.
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    Europe’s Climate Quandary

    Jean Pisani-Ferry assesses the inevitable trade-offs the European Union must confront in achieving its clean-energy targets.
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    Governing the Unknown

    Kaushik Basu suggests a few principles to guide policymakers as they try to keep up with rapidly advancing technologies.
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    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.
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    Climate Science Beats Climate Fatalism

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, et al. show that the more ambitious 1.5º target for global warming is still feasible – and more necessary than ever.
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    Turkey’s Pragmatic Islamist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami expects Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest electoral victory to have little impact on Turkish foreign policy.

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