The Delusions of Counterinsurgency
By David Martin Jones and Michael L.R. Smith
The theory and practice of counterinsurgency, ‘COIN’, preoccupied Western military thinking after 9/11. In the Political Impossibility...
Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West
By Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson discusses his latest book: Ukraine Crisis: What it means for the West. He contends that the book is actually about...
The Greening of Asia: Businesses’ Role in the World’s Biggest-Ever Environmental Clean-Up
By Mark L. Clifford
The challenge of improving Asia’s environment has been translated into business opportunities. These range from providing clean, always on, tap-water and...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding.
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president, Xi...
Global Energy Dilemmas: Revisited
By Michael Bradshaw
When it comes to global energy consumption, business as usual is no longer an option. Here Michael Bradshaw reflects on the energy...
Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense
Interview with James Zhan
Foreign investment holds enormous potential for women’s empowerment through the creation of formal jobs and business linkages – and this is...
Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
Lessons from the Microsoft Antitrust Cases
By Andrew I Gavil and Harry First
For three decades Microsoft has been engaged with the global system for enforcing competition policy. In an excerpt...
World Investment Forum 2014: Investing in Sustainable Development
By Henrietta Morris
In the early 1960s, developing countries began to raise concerns regarding their place in international trade, calling for a conference whose specific...
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...
