The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars
By Michael E. Mann
In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” a chart showing global temperature data over the...
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...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
