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January 10, 2019

Disasters
Averting Global Catastrophe: A New IIGG Blog Series

Nature and technology pose a worrying array of threats to twenty-first century civilization. These global menaces and the catastrophic risks associated with them are the subject of a new Internationa…

A mushroom cloud expands on the horizon.

November 15, 2017

Energy and Climate Policy
Hippocratic Oath for Bonn

This post is authored by Lindsay Iversen, associate director for climate and resources at the Council on Foreign Relations' Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. You can follow her on twitter @li…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks between Vice President Mike Pence (L) and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt prior to signing an executive order on "Energy Independence," eliminating Obama-era climate change regulations, March 28, 2017.

August 29, 2017

China
The Global Economy’s New Rule-Maker

MILAN – In a recent commentary for the South China Morning Post, Helen Wong, HSBC’s chief executive for Greater China, shows that China’s rising generation of 400 million young consumers will soon ac…

A woman walks past the poster of a bank branch in Beijing, China.

August 2, 2017

Economics
Explaining Global Recovery Amid Political Recession

MILAN – In the summer, as life slows down, there is space to reflect on fundamental issues. One of the key puzzles occupying my mind of late is the disconnect between widespread political dysfunction…

Protester Removed from Trump Rally Reuters

August 1, 2017

Israel
Flying Over the Boycotts of Israel

How’s that movement to boycott Israel going? Here are just a few announcements made in 2017, and I am sure I have missed many others. “Ryanair Launches 15 New Flight Routes Between Israel and E…