by Rajan Menon | May 4, 2022 | Food & Farm, Health, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
In 1919, the renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace, a book that would prove controversial indeed. In it, he warned that the draconian terms imposed on defeated Germany after what was then known as the Great War —...
by Amy E. Gadsden | Apr 25, 2022 | Health
There’s no shortage of issues to keep Chinese premier Xi Jinping from sleeping at night: the threat of a real estate market collapse, Chinese provinces adjusting growth targets downward because of COVID, his decision to align closely with Vladimir Putin and Russia’s...
by Tom Athanasiou | Apr 19, 2022 | Energy, Environment
How to create the political backing for the international effort necessary to achieve a fair and rapid global climate transition, even though that support would be properly denominated not in billions of dollars but rather in trillions, or even as percentages of Gross...
by Nick Cleveland-Stout, Taylor Giorno, William Hartung | Mar 23, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, War & Peace
A growing chorus of pundits and policymakers has suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new Cold War. If so, that means trillions of additional dollars for the Pentagon in the years to come coupled with a more aggressive military posture...
by Farrah Hassen | Mar 16, 2022 | War & Peace
This week marks the 11th anniversary of the war in Syria. As a Syrian American, it is difficult to acknowledge such a grim milestone without feeling a profound sense of anguish over the nearly 500,000 lives lost, the displacement of over 13 million people, and the...
