The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the...
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Proponents of energy independence enshrine America’s so-called “shale revolution” as a geopolitical game changer, enabling the United States...
Development Strategies, Identities and Conflict in Asia
By Natalia Mirovitskaya and William Ascher
Development strategies in Asian countries that are meant to increase peace and economic stability are often linked to inter-group...
China and Latin America: Connected and Competing
By Kayla Chen & Xiangming Chen
The Global Rise of China
The rise of China has stolen more headlines than any other global issue these days,...
Can the West Get Out of Its (Self-Made) Cul-de-Sac?
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the Middle East unilaterally—or even...
The Responsibility to Protect: Reading Ethical Responsibilities Into the Rule of Law
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa B. Bowman
The scope and source of permissible use of force in response to a humanitarian crisis frames a...
The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own...
Writing Theory from the South: The Global Order from an African Perspective
By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
Western thought has, from the first, regarded the non-West as a place of antiquarian traditions and unprocessed data....
Is China Buying the World?
By Peter Nolan
China’s ‘catch-up’ has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the era of capitalist globalisation. Below, Peter Nolan argues that the...
From Deep Globalisation to the Risk of Deglobalisation: the Rise of Local-Contentism
By Marcos Troyjo
As the world transitions from ‘Deep Globalisation to Deglobalisation’, economic policies based on a ‘Doctrine of Local Content’ take center stage. As...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
