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Navigating between Stasis and Chaos: Crafting a Course through Disruptive Storms

Posted Aug 25, 2025| by Sean Cleary - Founder and Executive Vice-Chair of FutureWorld Foundation

The world is at an historical inflection point, defined by a shift in the geo-economic centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific; a lesser capacity by the United States to project power across the globe to maintain the “rules-based international order” that it... Read More

Holding Ground in Preventing Violent Extremism

Posted on Aug 21, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Global Public Policy Institute

Preventing violent extremism requires an understanding of what works, under which conditions, to stop radicalization and violence. Evaluation - the systematic assessment of activities and interventions - is crucial for understanding and to improve prevention in practice, suggest Sofie Stoffel, Sarah Bressan, and Lea Marlene... Read More

No Green Growth Without Innovation

Posted on Aug 22, 2025 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Bruegel Policy Brief

With the reality of climate change no longer contentious, the debate has shifted towards the consequences of climate change containment for economic growth. Economists have not tackled this debate very well. Discussion has mainly revolved around the trade-off between immediate costs and long-term benefits of... Read More

Understanding and Improving Sanctions Today

Posted on Aug 25, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Chatham House

Sanctions are a key instrument of foreign policy and economic statecraft, used with increasing frequency by the U.S., the UK and the EU. The growing prevalence of these tools raises concerns about the efficacy, enforcement and unintended consequences, as well as their impact on international... Read More

Trump’s Quest to Transform the West

Posted on Aug 21, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by European Council on Foreign Relations

There is an American redefinition of the West in explicitly spiritual terms - with an ideology based on so-called “Judeo-Christian values”. In this vision, the Trump administration portrays the US not as a liberal republic, but a covenantal nation defending a divinely ordained moral order... Read More

Priorities and Mechanisms of Industrial Recovery of Ukraine

Posted on Aug 22, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by GLOBSEC

The Russian invasion has led to to the destruction of production facilities, loss of markets, fall in purchasing capacity, lack of supplies, non-performed external contracts, and personnel deficits in Ukraine. Iryna Kosse notes in her GLOBSEC article that Ukrainian industrial enterprises also face disrupted logistics... Read More

Reform or Realignment? The Geopolitical Lessons of Bretton Woods

Posted on Aug 26, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Rising economic pressures, including President Trump’s trade wars and the intensifying competition between the U.S. and China, are calling into question the foundations of the global economy. The history of Bretton Woods provides a common reference point to those seeking to reform the international economic... Read More