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Ana Palacio

Ana Palacio

Writing for PS since 2011
166 commentaries

Ana Palacio, a former minister of foreign affairs of Spain and former senior vice president and general counsel of the World Bank Group, is a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University.

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  1. China’s New Social Contract
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    China’s New Social Contract

    Dec 17, 2024 Ana Palacio highlights a fundamental shift in priorities brought about by slowing growth and changing public expectations.

  2. COP29 Must Deliver the Goods
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    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

    Nov 19, 2024 Ana Palacio hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.

  3. Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees
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    Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees

    Oct 9, 2024 Ana Palacio views NATO as the only institution that can credibly safeguard the country’s sovereignty in the long term.

  4. Conflict and Competitiveness in Europe
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    Conflict and Competitiveness in Europe

    Sep 16, 2024 Ana Palacio supports the EU reform agenda recently proposed by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

  5. A Principled and Powerful EU
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    A Principled and Powerful EU

    Aug 9, 2024 Ana Palacio urges Europe's leaders to take bold steps to reclaim the bloc's integrity and strengthen its global influence.

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    Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

    Anders Åslund thinks a weakening economy will soon become a serious constraint on Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
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    What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

    Philippe Aghion, et al. think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.
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    Shock-Proofing the UK Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    No country wants external developments to drive up its borrowing costs and weaken its currency, which is what the UK is facing today, together with serious cyclical and structural challenges. But if the British government responds appropriately, recent market volatility might turn out to have a silver lining.

    urges the government to communicate better what it is doing to boost resilient growth – and to do more.
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    As Trump Returns, Sino-Indian Relations Are Changing

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury explains why one of America’s key allies is hedging its bets amid escalating global tensions.
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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.
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    Social Media as It Should Be

    Robin Berjon explains how the Bluesky model could restore the original promise of the internet.
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    Trump’s Greenland Grab

    Carl Bildt

    Now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, he believes that it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to have “ownership and control” of Greenland. But as an autonomous Danish territory where the US military already operates, Greenland has no reason to abandon its current political arrangement.

    explains why the US president-elect's threats to seize the Danish territory are so dangerous.
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    Joe Biden’s Disappearing Legacy

    Richard Haass thinks the outgoing US president got some big things mostly right and some big things mostly wrong.

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