Law and Religion in a Secular Europe
By Lorenzo Zucca
What place do law and religion occupy in European political societies? Do they overlap in such a way that conflict cannot be...
Immigration Policy and Executive Power at Loose Ends: The Case of the US1
By Philip Kretsedemas
The discretionary powers of the US Presidency have steadily expanded over the course of the 20th century. These powers are especially pertinent...
Welcome to the Post-American World: Barack Obama, US Foreign Policy and the 2012 Election
By Robert Singh
Obama set himself the task of managing America’s decline while retaining primacy in the international order. Yet his substantive achievements have been...
99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We...
By Chuck Collins
At the root of social movements around the world is the emergence, in the last three decades, of extreme inequalities of income,...
Leadership, Power and Contextual Intelligence
By Joseph S. Nye
Understanding of leadership is often limited by stereotypes about power, role and gender. In an information age where networks become more...
The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Russia from the Fur Trade to Carbon Aristocracy
By Alexander Etkind
Russia’s geographical space was largely shaped by the fur trade. Oil and gas have been found in those very spaces that the...
Corruption in India
By Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari
Corruption is most often defined as public corruption, corruption committed by public servants, sometimes also referred to as bureaucratic...
Reshaping Tomorrow: What will India look like in 2025?
By Ejaz Ghani
What will India and the rest of South Asia look like in 2025? The optimistic view is that India will achieve double-digit...
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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...
