Norway's Sovereign Duty

BRUSSELS – Recent developments in Norway could have momentous implications for climate-related commitments at the UN climate-change conference...

What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger

JOHANNESBURG – In South Africa, many people struggle to access sufficient quantities of healthy food. Because their diets are high in processed...

The Atlantic Alliance After Afghanistan

FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON, DC – Transatlantic relations rebounded buoyantly after US President Joe Biden arrived in the Oval Office. But the...

Inflation in the Shadow of Debt

What the Energy Transition Needs

The Manchuria Crisis Revisited

OXFORD – Ninety years ago, on September 18, 1931, a junior Japanese military officer detonated an explosive that had been carefully laid by a...

India's Green Growth Imperative

NEW DELHI – India’s commitments under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2° Celsius relative to...

Will the BRICS Ever Grow Up?

LONDON – Having created the BRIC acronym to capture the collective potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China to influence the world economy, I...

The Case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

CAPE TOWN/BERLIN – The northern summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters. The list – which includes intense...

The Coming Food Fight

Countering Chinese Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

CHICAGO – US political leaders have long tried to counter Chinese industrial policy. And now they seem to have decided that the best way to do that...

America's Flawed State-Building Enterprise

TEL AVIV – “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission,” former US President George W. Bush wrote in his 2010 memoir. “We had...

Where Has All the Money Gone?

LONDON – Amid all the talk of when and how to end or reverse quantitative easing (QE), one question is almost never discussed: Why have central...

A Just Transition Needs a Job Guarantee

Saving the Future for Ethiopia's Schoolchildren

LONDON – The civil war in northern Ethiopia has entered its 11th month. The conflict, which started in the Tigray region, has expanded to the...

How Democracy Can Win Again

BUDAPEST – My political awakening coincided with the systemic changes that unfolded following the collapse of communism in Hungary in 1989. I was...

Financing a Sustainable Global Food System

BEIJING – The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately $8 trillion annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly...

European Strategic Autonomy After Afghanistan

MADRID – There is good reason to be critical of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. If the images of desperate Afghans flocking to Kabul...

Latin America's Burning Challenge