What Biden And Xi Can Agree On
The leaders of the U.S. and China are meeting amid high tension, but both have reason to lower the temperature. Here’s how they could. Read More Here
Category: World
Food Insecurity, Hunger Blame On Bali G20 Menu
It’s already clear summit will fail to agree on joint communique as West insists on condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. Read More Here
The Age Of Megathreats
For four decades after World War II, climate change and job-displacing artificial intelligence were not on anyone’s mind, and terms like “deglobalization” and “trade war” had no purchase. But now we are entering a new era that will more closely resemble the tumultuous and dark decades between 1914 and 1945. Read More Here
The Beginning Of History
The prospect of a timeless future has given way to visions of no future at all. Ideology remains a fault line in geopolitics, market globalisation is fragmenting, and great-power conflict has become increasingly likely. Read More Here
The End Of Short, Sharp Wars
How would the high-tech U.S. military fare in a war against China or Russia? The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War may provide some answers. It may call into question some deeply held U.S. military axioms. Read More Here
World Stumbling Into A New Era Of Risk, Concludes SIPRI Report
World leaders are failing to prepare for a new era of complex and often unpredictable risks to peace as profound environmental and security crises converge and intensify, according to a major report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Read More Here
The Echoes Of America’s Hypocrisy Abroad
Few in the United States spend much time nowadays ruminating over their country’s role in backing ruinous regimes like these across what was once fancied as the Third World. And even among those who recall, much is misremembered. Read More Here
Vicious Crises
Treating the pandemic, climate change, lost public trust, and geopolitical tensions as standalone issues will get us nowhere. Each problem operates in a feedback loop with the others, demanding more holistic thinking and novel strategies to make up for the shortcomings of conventional global governance. Read More Here
Get Ready For A Spike In Global Unrest
To call 2021 the summer of discontent would be a severe understatement. From Cuba to South Africa to Colombia to Haiti, often violent protests are sweeping every corner of the globe as angry citizens are taking to the streets. Read More Here
Pandemic Year Marked By Spike In World Hunger
There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped*, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of the global population – up to 811 million people – […]
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