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The Tragedy of Emmanuel Macron

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Jean-Baptiste Wautier

No Development Strategy Can Ignore the Climate

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Marcos Vinicius Chiliatto

There Is No Alternative for Europe

BERLIN – By now, it is obvious that Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency has inaugurated a process of historical reordering. One of the first...

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Joschka Fischer

The EU’s Draghi Agenda Isn’t Ambitious Enough

LONDON – Few national leaders get to save their societies even once, let alone twice. Charles de Gaulle did so, first by leading Free France during...

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Mariana Mazzucato

The IMF Is Missing in Action

WASHINGTON, DC – According to the International Monetary Fund’s Articles of Agreement, the Fund’s main purpose is to facilitate the balanced...

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Desmond Lachman

What Is Dividing the West?

PARIS – After US Vice President J.D. Vance’s hostile speech at February’s Munich Security Conference and President Donald Trump’s shameful...

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Laurence Nardon

The Case for Militant Democracy

NEW YORK – The question of whether, and how, democracies should defend themselves against subversion has again become a hot-button issue. In...

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Katharina Pistor

Foreign Aid Looks Good Now That It’s Gone

CAMBRIDGE – “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” When Joni Mitchell sang that line in 1970, she was...

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Jeffrey Frankel

The Key to Global Public Health

LUXEMBOURG – The COVID-19 crisis taught the world fundamental lessons about the importance of global cooperation to fight disease. But that...

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Nadia Calviño

Faith Is Indispensable to Global Development

CAMBRIDGE – For nearly two decades, I have worked at the intersection of development, health, and security. In roundtables with heads of state,...

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Alaa Murabit

Women’s Role in War Must Extend to Peace

PRETORIA – Despite all the progress that has been made toward gender equality globally, many are still tempted to view armed conflict as primarily...

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Carolyn Chisadza

Russia’s Two Minds on Ukraine

NEW YORK – The double-headed eagle that dominates Russia’s coat of arms holds many meanings, from signifying a historical connection to the...

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Nina L. Khrushcheva

The Case for a North American Customs Union

MEXICO CITY – Many of the assumptions underlying the conventional wisdom about globalization in the early 2000s have been upended in recent years....

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Guillermo Ortiz

What Islamic Finance Brings to Climate Resilience

JEDDAH – As ministers representing the 57 member countries of the Islamic Development Bank Group gather in Algiers for the IsDB’s 51st annual...

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Muhammad Al Jasser

What’s Eating Europe’s Food System?

BRUSSELS – Food prices have surged in recent years across the European Union. In March 2023, food-price inflation hit a record high of 15%. In...

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Elmar Hannen

Trump Dumps Netanyahu

TEL AVIV – Israel’s government decided last week to expand its military offensive against Hamas – an effort that, it notes, may include...

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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Europe Must Change Its Approach to Africa

CAPE TOWN – In recent years, China has surpassed Europe in terms of both trade with Sub-Saharan Africa and infrastructure investment there. The...