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347 commentaries, Updated on 20 Mar 2023

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Shlomo Ben-Ami Peace Requires Betrayal
  2. George Soros Updating My Munich Predictions
  3. Anna Husarska, et al. A Humanitarian Call for Arms
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122 commentaries, Updated on 13 Mar 2023

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Jan-Werner Mueller The Dilemma of Anti-Populism
  2. Shashi Tharoor India’s Thin-Skinned Leaders
  3. Shlomo Ben-Ami Netanyahu’s Sabotage of Israeli Democracy
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878 commentaries, Updated on 16 Mar 2023

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

  1. William A. Haseltine A Path Out of the Pandemic
  2. Ifeanyi M. Nsofor Decolonizing Global Health Leadership
  3. Nicholas B. Dirks Rebuilding Trust in Science
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14 commentaries, Updated on 21 Mar 2022

As the world changes rapidly, so does the nature of the risks we face. Yet our models for mitigating security threats have largely failed to keep up. …

  1. Lolwah Al-Khater, et al. Building the Green-Recovery Consensus
  2. Kemal Derviş, et al. Will Ukraine's Tragedy Spur UN Security Council Reform?
  3. Thitinan Pongsudhirak Southeast Asia's New-Old Cold War
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48 commentaries, Updated on 3 Mar 2023

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Bogolo Kenewendo The Climate-Security Failure
  2. Hindou Ibrahim The Best Way to Preserve Nature Is Also the Fairest
  3. Mo Ibrahim What Climate Justice Means for Africa
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96 commentaries, Updated on 13 Mar 2023

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Mercedes D'Alessandro Feminist Economics for All
  2. Barbara Balke, et al. The Business Case for Women’s Climate Leadership
  3. Atiya Anis Evidence for Equity
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11 commentaries, Updated on 21 Feb 2023

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Sania Nishtar Digital-Payment Systems Could Revolutionize Health Care
  2. Tomicah Tillemann What Is Web3 Good For?
  3. David Malpass Aiding the Digital Revolution in Global Financial Inclusion
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19 commentaries, Updated on 24 Nov 2021

In the run-up to the first-ever Nobel Prize Summit, Project Syndicate – in partnership with the Nobel Foundation, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Im…

  1. Johan Rockström, et al. Green Business After COP26
  2. Johan Rockström, et al. Deciding Humanity’s Future
  3. Bryan Doerries The Tragedy of Climate Change
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270 commentaries, Updated on 13 Mar 2023

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Miriam Mutebi Winning the Cancer War in Sub-Saharan Africa
  2. Kingsley Moghalu Nigeria’s Make-or-Break Election
  3. Safia Boly, et al. How to Transform African Agriculture
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120 commentaries, Updated on 22 Nov 2022

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Arzu Geybulla Facebook Is Failing Journalists
  2. Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. Defending Democracies’ Information Infrastructure
  3. Alexander Schallenberg, et al. Defending Democracy’s Defenders
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282 commentaries, Updated on 15 Mar 2023

The challenges facing developing countries – from providing clean water to fighting infectious diseases – are jeopardizing their economic growth prospects, …

  1. Robin Willoughby, et al. The Food-System Revolution Is Coming
  2. Claire Hutchings How Governments Can Reach Those Furthest Behind First
  3. Ifeanyi M. Nsofor Decolonizing Global Health Leadership
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43 commentaries, Updated on 17 Oct 2022

PS commentators weigh in on the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and the return of the Taliban two decades after the group was ousted from pow…

  1. Gordon Brown, et al. Afghanistan’s Girls and Women Fight Back
  2. Carl Bildt Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War?
  3. Brahma Chellaney The Afghan Abyss
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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

     considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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