Timothy Snyder sees growing signs that America’s president seeks to turn the US military into a palace guard.

Water scarcity, extreme heatwaves, and desertification are increasingly shaping everyday life in the Middle East and North ...

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Shang-Jin Wei identifies areas where inter-regional cooperation can make up for America’s abdication of leadership.

Martijn Konings urges anti-populists to offer a more appealing vision of the expansive use of the public purse.

Rana Mitter traces the country’s emergence as a world power to the visionary leaders who pushed for greater openness.

Martijn Konings is Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory at the University of Sydney and the author, most recently ...

Fakim, María Fernanda Espinosa and Shamshad Akhtar urge world leaders to overhaul a system that perpetuates poverty and ...

The rich world’s commitment to official development assistance (ODA) is fading fast. Aid budgets are flatlining ...

If US President Donald Trump is to be believed, America’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites have delivered a swift and ...

Nizar Haddad, Program Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Saudi Arabia, is a former director general of ...

Jim O'Neill thinks the elite grouping no longer serves a useful purpose, at least as it is currently constituted.