“The pandemic both reveals the size of the challenge ahead and also creates a unique chance to enact government policies that steer the economy away from carbon at a lower financial, social and…
"Several countries in the Western Balkans have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak with draconian measures that entail a further erosion of democracy, writes Natasha Wunsch. She argues the pandemic is…
"In order to understand how the United States and other Western countries should deal with China in the coming years, we need to understand what kind of society we are dealing with. Such an…
"Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble… As economies reopen, activity will recover, but don’t expect a quick return to a carefree world of unfettered movement and free trade. The…
"To combat the coronavirus, the state has grown more powerful. What does that mean for liberty and the democratic norms that protect us?" (McTague, 2020)
"During this period of the pandemic, many have remarked how well the national cabinet has worked. It would seem that we need a crisis for politicians to leave politics at the door… With COVID, a…
"The French economist Thomas Piketty is the bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) and its follow-up, Capital and Ideology (2019), a sweep through 1,000 years of the history…
"Could the Covid-19 crisis accelerate the adoption of a new, more equitable and more sustainable development model? ... There must be a clear change in priorities and a certain number of taboos in…
“More than a thousand years before the Greeks invented democracy and the Romans undermined it with imperialism,” Ugarit and Mycenae “of the Bronze Age laid the foundations for what is often called…
