America’s Never-Ending War in the Middle East
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
While President Obama continues – at least for now – to resist redeploying large numbers of U.S. soldiers...
Gearing Corporate Reporting to Promote Sustainable Development
By James X. Zhan
The post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) currently being devised by the international community cannot be fulfilled under the auspices of the...
Cities in a Global Order
By Simon Curtis
The remarkable transformation of the world’s major cities over recent decades has been widely noted as being driven by a restructuring of...
A Watershed in the Financing of Infrastructure for Water Security
By John Briscoe
Water is a basic necessity – crucial not only for sustaining life, but also for facilitating sustainable economic growth. Below, Professor John...
Climate Change: Legal, Financial, Economic and Risk Management Issues
By Tapen Sinha
Human activities have accelerated the process of climate change. Since dealing with climate change requires collective action across countries and across...
Toward a New Global Russia: Leaving the BRICS Behind
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Olaf Groth
While Russia’s growth in the early 2000s inspired confidence in its potential as a global economic powerhouse,...
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
By J. F. C. DiMento, P. Doughman and S. Levesque
Most of us are familiar with the terms climate change and global warming, but not...
The Constitution of Risk
By Adrian Vermeule
How should we approach legal decisions regarding private property for public use? How can constitutional risk be managed in order to...
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...
The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda
By Howard Stein
Since the latter part of the 1990s the World Bank has increasingly claimed its main focus is on poverty reduction and development....
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The AI Arms Race
By Christian Jacob
Everyone in the world of finance understands that fraud is a constant and ever-changing challenge. Fraudsters in the 19th and early 20th centuries used simple, hands-on techniques to perpetrate their crimes. The...
