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Cybersecurity. Digital privacy comes at a price. Here’s how to protect it (Robert Muggah, WEF)

Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity. People do not consciously put a price on...

Nepal. Fifth time lucky? Deuba’s last chance for a legacy in Nepal (Michael Hutt, East Asia Forum)

On 13 July 2021, 75-year-old Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of the Nepali Congress party, was appointed Prime Minister by order of Nepal’s Supreme Court....

Japan. Suga’s resignation opens up Japan’s leadership race (Jeff Kingston, East Asia Forum)

On 3 September 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga unexpectedly announced he would not run in the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential race scheduled...

SDR. This SDR Allocation Must Be Different (Barry Eichengreen, Project-Syndicate)

When the International Monetary Fund announced last month a new $650 billion allocation of special drawing rights, the hope was that high-income countries would...

Afghanistan/Future World. Three Lessons from a Two-Decade Failure (Javier Solana, Project-Syndicate)

The debacle in Afghanistan this summer confirmed what many have long suspected: that much of the West’s foreign policy since the September 11, 2001,...

USA. Learning the Right Lessons from US Economic Experimentation (Dani Rodrik, Project-Syndicate)

In one policy area after another – from trade to taxation to labor markets – the decades-old consensus in the United States has been...

The symbol and the risk (by Marco Emanuele)

After twenty years, September 11, 2001 (which we have raised as a symbol that traces a new era) still speaks to us. We look...

Il simbolo e il rischio (di Marco Emanuele)

Ebbene si, dopo vent'anni l'11 settembre 2001 (che abbiamo elevato a simbolo che traccia una nuova era) ancora ci parla. Guardiamo a quella data con...

9/11. How 9/11 changed the policy world (Madiha Afzal, Scott R. Anderson, John Hudak, Elaine Kamarck, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Fred Dews, Brookings)

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, six Brookings scholars reflect on their personal experiences of that terrible day, and offer expert insights into how...

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