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BOJ’s recent policy changes highlight a shift toward global monetary practices

The Bank of Japan’s big move at the end of last month was a watershed moment in recent monetary-policy history. Its surprise rate increase...

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Sayuri Shirai

The counteroffensive against populism

Think back to late June and early July. The French far right was favored to win a snap parliamentary election. Trumpist judges in the United States...

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Jan-Werner Mueller

Will Bangladesh go the way of Pakistan?

The recent violent upheaval that led to a military-backed regime change in Bangladesh, followed by the country’s pleas for $6.5 billion in...

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Brahma Chellaney

Should Israel want a bigger conflict with Iran now?

An overwhelming majority of Israelis say they want a cease-fire deal to get the remaining hostages in Gaza back alive. Most also say they’re...

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Marc Champion

The transformation of American liberalism

The transformation of liberalism, namely its polarization, lies at the heart of social divisions and a retreat of democracy in the United States....

28.08.2024 1

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Naoko Kumagai

Traditional economics fail the geopolitical test

Two days of discussions last week at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego about Japan’s future role...

28.08.2024 4

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Brad Glosserman

How long can the BOJ get away with rate shocks?

Central bank decisions have become more predictable. Not in Japan. Kazuo Ueda broke one of the cardinal rules of monetary practice with his recent...

28.08.2024 2

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Daniel Moss And Gearoid Reidy

How a Harris-Walz administration might handle Asia policy

In the U.S. presidential election, as I noted in a very brief post on this topic for CFR.org, the race remains very close between former President...

28.08.2024 1

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Joshua Kurlantzick

Ukraine has a Germany problem again. Here’s how to fix it.

Not for the first time, Ukraine is having problems with support from Berlin. It also has a France, U.S. and even a U.K. problem. Taken together,...

27.08.2024 3

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Marc Champion

When art is all that remains

Early in this century, I was told, the United Kingdom compiled a list of the 10 most important actions to take in the event of an emergency. One...

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Nina L. Khrushcheva

Shorts at the office? Go for it.

As summer heats up, the vicious debate that has held our polarized nation hostage is reaching new levels of vitriol. I’m talking, of course, about...

27.08.2024 40

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Sarah Green Carmichael

Why is the U.S. fighting nuclear threats behind closed doors?

"Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by...

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Andreas Kluth

Black myth, Black samurai and gaming nationalism

Cultural authenticity hasn’t always been crucial to video games. Few Italians complain about Super Mario’s stereotypical accent or Indians about...

27.08.2024 1

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Gearoid Reidy

America’s coming climate election

Every U.S. presidential election is consequential, but American voters face an unusually weighty decision in 2024. The outcome will have...

27.08.2024 3

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Barry Eichengreen

Kamala Harris charts her vision for the United States

Vice President Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech was a call for a new path forward, to a country where a woman’s job is commander-in-chief. It was...

25.08.2024 5

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Nia-Malika Henderson

Kamala Harris must correct America's Ukraine policy

By providing Ukraine with early military, political and financial support, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration saved it from being overrun...

25.08.2024 6

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Anders Åslund

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