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The Future of American Soft Power

CAMBRIDGE – Power is the ability to get others to do what you want. That can be accomplished by coercion (“sticks”), payment (“carrots”), and...

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Joseph S. Nye

The Green Key to Germany’s Economic Recovery

BRUSSELS – Talk of recession abounds, and it is no secret why. US President Donald Trump’s erratic, beggar-thy-neighbor policies have cast a cloud...

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Gernot Wagner

Trump’s Tariffs Are Not About Dolls

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS – In a famous scene from the hit American television series Succession, the savvy patriarch of a family-owned media empire is...

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Nancy Qian

Carbon Pricing Is Advancing Despite Trump

LONDON – Many fear that America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement will undermine the international consensus to reduce greenhouse-gas...

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Adair Turner

How Many Children Must AI Kill?

ZURICH – On February 28, 2024, Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old boy from Florida, killed himself at the urging of a lifelike AI character generated...

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Peter G. Kirchschläger

Trump’s Portraits of Power

PARIS – There is a peculiarly American tradition of commissioning official painted portraits of each president. The National Portrait Gallery in...

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Vanessa Badré

Getting Debt Sustainability Right in Developing Countries

HELSINKI – A slowing global economy, rising trade tensions, and increased risks of recession could mean a perfect storm for low- and middle-income...

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Kevin P. Gallagher

Sleepwalking Into a New Imperial Age

CAMBRIDGE – When you look at a building, you can see its walls, windows, and decorative flourishes but not the hidden structure that holds...

15.05.2025 1

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Ricardo Hausmann

What Happened to the UK’s Growth Mission?

LONDON – After becoming the first country to cut a new trade “deal” (or at least the framework of a deal) with the United States, British Prime...

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Jim O&x27Neill

Europe Can’t Rearm Its Way to Security

LONDON – As Russia’s war on Ukraine rages on Europe’s eastern frontier, the continent’s leaders are finally willing to admit they have the power to...

15.05.2025 3

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Grace Blakeley

The Sudden Death of Kurdish Separatism in Turkey

ISTANBUL – The world’s longest-running armed insurgency has come to an abrupt end. Some four decades after orchestrating its first attack against...

15.05.2025 30

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Sinan Ülgen

Mutually Assured Development Destruction

NEW DELHI – Toward the end of the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata, Krishna’s Yadava clan self-destructs. Many dark omens presage their...

15.05.2025 9

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Jayati Ghosh

The Indirect Impact of Trump’s Tariff War

MILAN – An overwhelming majority of economists are convinced that, contrary to what US President Donald Trump apparently believes, tariffs cannot...

14.05.2025 5

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Daniel Gros

Protectionism Will Not Protect Against Pandemics

GENEVA/LONDON – As many Global North countries turn inward, foreign assistance has become an easy target. The decimation of the US Agency for...

14.05.2025 1

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Winnie Byanyima

Absorbing the US Brain Drain

LONDON – In times of political turbulence, leading research universities often become both targets of populist rhetoric and beacons of hope. For...

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Sergei Guriev

The US Dollar’s Fall from Grace

14.05.2025 3

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The Economic Consequences of the Trump Administration’s Policies

MILAN – To call the current global economic environment “uncertain” grossly understates the confusion that has taken hold in recent months, and...

14.05.2025 9

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Michael Spence

America’s Hard Power Must Get Harder

SAN DIEGO – In Raiders of the Lost Ark , Harrison Ford gets his biggest laugh when a desert assassin twirls a scimitar with menacing bravado....

14.05.2025 7

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Todd G. Buchholz

The Trump Factor in Today’s Middle East

WASHINGTON, DC – As Donald Trump parades through the Middle East this week, he will encounter a very different region than the one he experienced...

14.05.2025 3

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Aaron David Miller

American Exceptionalism Meets Its Maker

13.05.2025 2

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Barry Eichengreen

The Looming Global Debt Disaster

WASHINGTON, DC – Despite a succession of shocks since 2020, the global economy has held up remarkably well – so far. But the margin for error is...

13.05.2025 1

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Indermit Gill

Trump’s America Illustrates What Turkey Knows

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s financial markets are still reeling from the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and key members of his team on March...

13.05.2025 8

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Selva Demiralp

The World Doesn’t Need Another Climate Fund

SYDNEY – Brazil has announced plans to launch a $125 billion fund for the protection of tropical forests. It is a key element of the country’s...

13.05.2025 5

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Georgia Hammersley

The Unmaking of American Soft Power

LONDON – In the seventeenth century, Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop described the new settlement as “a city on a...

12.05.2025 1

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Chris Patten

Leo XIV and the Pro-Market Tradition of the Church

WASHINGTON, DC – Habemus papam! (“We have a pope!”). Christians around the world rejoiced when Pope Leo XIV was elected to be the 266th...

12.05.2025 3

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Michael R. Strain

Why an American Pope?

PRINCETON/PROVIDENCE – For centuries, papal elections were also diplomatic wrangles, with the great city-states of Italy (Milan, Florence, and...

12.05.2025 1

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Harold James

Can Trump Secure a New Iran Deal?

NEW YORK – Negotiators from the United States and Iran have just convened in Oman for their fourth round of nuclear talks. The two sides remain far...

12.05.2025 3

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Ian Bremmer

Is a US-China Trade Agreement Really Possible?

LONDON – The White House announced on Sunday that the United States and China will temporarily suspend or lift the import tariffs they imposed on...

12.05.2025 5

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Angela Huyue Zhang

The True Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution

PARIS – The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become...

12.05.2025 3

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Romain Troublé