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Harold JamesProject Syndicate |
PRINCETON – No one knows how the US presidential election will turn out. One possibility is that the Trump bubble will finally burst, allowing for a...
PRINCETON – Although trade policy is being debated everywhere, rarely is it addressed honestly. Instead of focusing on costs and benefits, the issue...
SALZBURG – There is something rotten in the state of Europe. Central to French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Sorbonne in April was a...
PRINCETON – The humming world economy and recent stock-market euphoria would seem to be at odds with our crisis-torn, fragmenting world. Seemingly...
PRINCETON – “Trussing” is an old English verb with various connotations. It can mean putting in beams to support a building or bridge, or tying...
PRINCETON – Globally, democracies appear fragile and on the defensive. Comparisons with the 1970s and the interwar period abound. In the United...
PRINCETON – Gold has returned to the international monetary system. Over 50 years ago, US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”...
BERLIN – Democracies tend to struggle with security challenges. That was the context that led W.H. Auden to call the 1930s a “low dishonest...
BERLIN – Since global financial stability ought to be considered a public good, many international institutions devote themselves to establishing...
BERLIN – Public opinion about the world today is oddly bifurcated. Big industrial economies, including China, are gripped by a generalized mood of...
PRINCETON – The year 2023 ended on a sour, cheerless note, with looming elections in 2024 intensifying fears about the fate of democracy and the...