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Will global cooperation finally emerge from the doldrums in 2019? The international community’s recent agreement on a “rulebook” for implementing the...

Chinese leaders do like their slogans, and where foreign policy is concerned, two have reflected Beijing’s thinking in recent times. The first is the...

On December 3, 2018, the Central European University announced that from September 2019 it would relocate most of its teaching from Budapest to Vienna....

America’s high-quality universities are among the key sources of its greatness. Every year, top students from all over the world vie for access to...

Jim Yong Kim’s sudden resignation as president of the World Bank Group (WBG) offers an opportunity to reflect on the direction, legitimacy, and...

During the years of ultra cheap money, companies loaded up on debt but now the concern is whether they will be able to handle the mountain of debt as...

Klaus Schwab, who founded the World Economic Forum (WEF), has said his childhood during World War II inspired him to build an organisation that would make...

The overwhelming defeat that Britain’s Parliament inflicted upon Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan was fresh confirmation that there is no...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide victory in the 2014 general election, he promised to be all things to...

In 1942, William Beveridge issued an epoch-defining report that established a model for welfare states in the post-war era. He recognized that the old...