The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons and...
By Jeremy Rifkin
The third Industrial Revolution is on its way. New York Times
India: Domestic Lenses for a Global Vision for the 21st Century
By Jean-Pierre Lehmann
India has emerged as one of the world’s six leading nations. Its global ambitions, however, are mired by difficult domestic circumstances and...
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Proponents of energy independence enshrine America’s so-called “shale revolution” as a geopolitical game changer, enabling the United States...
China and Latin America: Connected and Competing
By Kayla Chen & Xiangming Chen
The Global Rise of China
The rise of China has stolen more headlines than any other global issue these days,...
Can the West Get Out of Its (Self-Made) Cul-de-Sac?
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the Middle East unilaterally—or even...
Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)
By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips
A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA...
A Review of Abenomics: The Bold Plan to End Deflationary Recession in Japan
By Mitsuru Misawa
In order to catalyse economic activity and pull Japan from its two-decade period of deflationary recession, new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has...
InnovaBRICS & Beyond: An Interview with Marcos Troyjo
Marcos Troyjo is Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a special forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China at Columbia's School of International...
The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own...
Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries
By Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker
Terrorist attacks in the last decade have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of many legal systems. Below, Aniceto...



































































