The Strategic Significance of Central Asia
By David Denoon
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the creation of five newly independent states in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
Why Selling the SDGs Isn’t As Easy As ABC
By Belinda Goldsmith
Amid much hype and expectation, the 193 member states of the United Nations last September agreed on a new ambitious set of...
The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
By Tim Anderson
The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular...
The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the...
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman
Despite the unanimous agreement of United Nations member states to commit as an international community to global humanitarian...
How Can Brazil Restore its Growth Trajectory?
By Dan Steinbock
Only a few years ago, Brazil exemplified the BRIC dream of rapid growth. Now it is coping with its longest recession,...
Harvesting The Biosphere
By Vaclav Smil
Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the...
Durability before Democracy: Why Stability is Elusive in the Middle East
By Sean Yom
In this article Sean Yom discusses how the lack of permanence of Middle Eastern governments means that democracy is for the time...
Is Brazil still “The Country of The Future”?
By Manoel Bittencourt
In this article Manoel Bittencourt argues that corruption is killing economic growth and prosperity in Brazil. Using standard economic theory and data...
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
By Robert Hunziker
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe administration’s...
Refugees and Refugee Crises: Some Historical Reflections
By Peter Gatrell
The current Syrian refugee crisis provides an opportunity to look beyond the headlines and to locate it in a broader historical context....
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...
