Tag: Project-Syndicate

Climate Action – A Global Incentive to Reduce Emissions (Project-Syndicate)

RAGHURAM G. RAJAN A Global Incentive to Reduce Emissions by Raghuram G. Rajan - Project Syndicate (project-syndicate.org)

Global Health Governance – Global Health Governance from the Grassroots (Project-Syndicate)

NGAIRE WOODS, OK PANNENBORG Historically, global health and environmental cooperation has reflected various combinations of top-down and bottom-up measures. To be better prepared for future pandemics,...

Pandemic – Taking the Fight to the Pandemic (Project-Syndicate)

SIMON JOHNSON Taking the Fight to the Pandemic by Simon Johnson - Project Syndicate (project-syndicate.org)

Asia – Tackling Asia’s Plastic Pollution (Project-Syndicate)

JED ALEGADO, CLEMENS KUNZE, KEVIN LI Community-based organizations and grassroots-led initiatives across Asia are addressing the growing threat of plastics pollution. Governments must now enact and properly...

Palestine – A Financial New Deal for Palestine (Project-Syndicate)

RAJA KHALIDI The COVID-19 economic shock and the recent conflict with Israel highlight the importance of boosting the Palestinian economy. For starters, the International Monetary...

Europe – Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Trap (Project-Syndicate)

CLEMENS FUEST Europe’s share of the global economy may be declining, but the EU remains a major economic power with strong ties to the rest...

USA/China – What Explains America’s Antagonism Toward China? (Project-Syndicate)

ZHANG JUN In the last few years, the view of China as a strategic rival has taken over the American political mainstream, with leaders largely...

Politics – Prosecute the Populists? (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA As legal investigations of current and former populist leaders get underway, it is easy to succumb to schadenfreude. But the assumption that...

Germany – Germany’s Ineffective Green Unilateralism (Project-Syndicate)

HANS-WERNER SINN Climate change is a serious problem for humanity, but ambitious unilateral action by governments is self-defeating and will achieve little. Without binding international...

Africa – The High Cost of Underrating Africa (Project-Syndicate)

HIPPOLYTE FOFACK International credit-rating agencies perennially assign overinflated risks to Africa, irrespective of its improving macroeconomic fundamentals or the global economic environment. These “perception premiums”...

Vaccine Licensing, Production, and Global Distribution (Project-Syndicate)

MICHAEL SPENCE Although much of the current COVID-19 vaccine debate is focused on the question of waivers for intellectual-property rights, the transfer of knowledge and...

Building Vaccine Trust, While Managing Risk (Project-Syndicate)

HEIDI J. LARSON How risks associated with some COVID-19 vaccines are managed, communicated, and – most important – perceived will be crucial to sustaining public...

USA – Biden’s Foreign Policy Needs a Course Correction (Project-Syndicate)

CHARLES A. KUPCHAN By defining today's geopolitics as a clash between democracy and autocracy, the Biden administration risks both empowering America's adversaries and undercutting its...

China – China Must Embrace Remote Work (Project-Syndicate)

NANCY QIAN The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a far-reaching shift to telecommuting throughout the West. But China has not followed suit, even though the social and...

Europe – The EU Is Still Flying Blind (Project-Syndicate)

ANA PALACIO Given strong public support for the Conference on the Future of Europe, failure to make at least some strides toward developing a shared...

Israel/Palestine – The End of Israel’s Illusion (Project-Syndicate)

SHLOMO BEN-AMI The prevailing consensus among Israelis that Palestinian nationalism had been defeated – and thus that a political solution to the conflict was no...