Threat perception The AI quandary: Governing the unknown
Major advances in AI are raising a raft of concerns about education, work, warfare, and other risks that could destabilise human civilisation long...
Opportunity in waiting: The G20 and G Minor
Amid rising geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, G20 can play a role in preventing a worse crisis by facilitating the coordination of...
Taking sides: When voters become fans
Today’s deepening political polarisation evokes longstanding assumptions about how electoral politics works. Far from exhibiting hardwired preferences...
Crunched for cash: The muddled politics of US inflation
Among emerging and developing economies in Asia, year-on-year inflation is at 5.7% in South Korea, 7.4% in India, and 85.5% (not a typo) in Turkey.
Machinery of autocracy: One step ahead of all the king’s games
In an era of democratic erosion, certain tactics enable authoritarians like Putin to stay in power. By knowing why some tyrants endure while others...
The Federal Reserve is overreacting
If the US Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates in large increments, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently suggested, economic growth,...
Understanding why Sri Lanka imploded
When Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa family returned to power in 2019, it was riding a wave of support that it sought to sustain with popular but ill-advised...
Worldwide shortages demand global solutions
Despite recent hiccups, the march of globalisation will not end. Policymakers must therefore try to establish minimal global conventions and...
