The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle
By Philip Auerswald
In March, 2009, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman posted to his blog a chart of US industrial production in 1929 and 1930 (the...
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...
Exercise 24: Using Social Media for Crisis Response
By George H. Bressler, Murray E. Jennex & Eric G. Frost
Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first...
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...
Italy: A Consumer Story
By Emanuela Scarpellini
Can we go on consuming as we do today, perhaps even more so? Would it not be better to devise a consumer...
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...
ExecuJet Aviation Group meeting the development demands in Africa
By ExecuJet Aviation Group
Operating in an environment in which Africa is still recovering from the global recession, ExecuJet have a crucial role to play...
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...
