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Europe. Three ways to fix European banking union (Ignazio Angeloni, OMFIF)

On 29 July, following months of closed-door manoeuvring and a management overhaul involving the exit of its CEO, Jean-Pierre Mustier, Unicredit issued its ‘preconditions’...

China. The Development of Central Bank Digital Currency in China: An Analysis (Geoffrey Goodell, Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, LSE SRC)

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has launched an ambitious project to develop a digital currency for use in domestic, retail transactions, and is, by...

Sierra Leone. Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education of Sierra Leone, the Global Partnership for Education and UNICEF complete construction of 30 early...

The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, (MBSSE), with financial and technical support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Global...

Education. Results Report 2021: Looking back on five years of progress and challenges (Élisé Miningou, GPE)

With the completion of GPE 2020, the strategic plan for the 2016–2020 period, the 2021 Results Report presents the progress and achievements of the partnership as measured...

Zimbabwe. Applying a whole school approach: Strengthening education systems to address gender violence in schools (Jenny Parkes, Sujata Bordoloi, GPE)

Parents send their children to school to learn, to become educated and with the hope that eventually they will have a better life than...

Democracy in transit. The Antidemocratic Turn (Zselyke Csaky, Freedom House)

Incumbent leaders and ruling parties are corrupting governance and spreading antidemocratic practices across the region that stretches from Central Europe to Central Asia. These...

USA/Defense. Where are the Carriers ? U.S. National Strategy and the Choises Ahead (John F. Lehman Jr., Steven Wills, Foreign Policy Research Institute)

As the United States seeks to prepare for a potential conflict with a peer-level adversary, the debate around the utility of the aircraft carrier—and its...

USA/China. Domestic Challenges in the U.S.-China Competition (Robert D. Kaplan, J. Stapleton Roy, Foreign Policy Research Institute)

What are the internal challenges to effective competition with China? In this episode of the Global Demons Podcast, Host Robert D. Kaplan is joined...

Afghanistan/Saudi Arabia. The Aftershocks of the Saudi and American Debacle in Afghanistan (Hugh Miles and Arab Digest, Fair Observer)

Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan have a complex relationship. Their ties date back to the 19th century when Afghanistan became the first Muslim country to recognize the second...

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