Mark-Alexandre Doumba points out that development depends on building indigenous capacity, not mere access to imported innovations.

When President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Washington this week, AI governance is expected to be at the top of the agenda. The Unite ...

Zaki Laïdi fears that upcoming elections in major countries could become referenda on liberal democracy itself.

Jan-Werner Mueller explains how—and how not—to interpret the far right’s recent victories in state elections.

Europe, Canada, and the democracies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America now bear the burden of keeping the old American ideal of the free world alive. While the ideal was always a noble lie, it enabled ...

Steve Tsang warns that the US fails to grasp the scope of China’s challenge to its international leadership at its peril.

Véronique Chabourine proposes “net interdependence assessments” as a way to cultivate EU partnerships that benefit both parties.

Véronique Chabourine is a strategic analyst specializing in global power dynamics, geoeconomics, and international political economy.

Marcin Piatkowski points to the region’s success as evidence that convergence remains Europe’s most effective growth strategy.

Far from bolstering US dominance, Donald Trump’s embrace of coercive militarism has eroded it. When the distinction between war and peace dissolves into a ceasefire that is neither, and months of ...

Philipp Schönrock encourages the new leader to make difficult choices about which reforms to pursue and which activities to ...

Nicholas Stern considers the implications of a new UN report warning that humanity has been too slow to cut emissions.