Project Syndicate

Confronting the Global Threat to Democracy

2016-06-03

For decades, globalization promised to bring benefits to all

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Reconciling with Sykes-Picot

2016-05-29

Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot aimed to devise a plan that would enable Great Britain and France to avoid a ruinous rivalry in the Middle East

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Mental Health in the Middle East

2016-05-25

Wars and terrorism are stressful. The traumatised have nowhere to turn

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Closing the Middle East’s Education Deficit

2016-05-25

ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are depriving more than 13 million children of an education

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Sykes-Picot, Middle East Underwriter, Dead at 100

2016-05-24

On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Great Britain and France signed a secret pact in London. Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the deal, negotiated by the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot

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Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis

2016-05-21

Generals are sometimes slow to get around to developing plans and ordnance for those new weapon systems and battlefields

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The Way Back for Monetary Policy

2016-05-17

Monetary policy is an effective means of managing inflation and can boost employment and output in a recession

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Turning Crisis into Success in Germany

2016-05-17

The enduring strength of Germany’s political center probably reflects the country’s remarkable economic success, which it has sustained for more than a decade, even as most of the rest of Europe has faced serious challenges

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Improving Governance in the Arab World

2016-05-15

The Arab Spring uprisings brought to the fore the inadequacy of the region’s outdated social contracts in the face of current political and economic challenges

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Monopoly’s New Era

2016-05-15

In today’s economy, many sectors – telecoms, cable TV, digital branches from social media to Internet search, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, agro-business, and many more – cannot be understood through the lens of competition

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Fairness and Free Trade

2016-05-15

The United States and the European Union must decide whether they will begin to treat China as a “market economy” in their trade policies

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War and Peace and Water

2016-05-11

Fortunately, there is a way to avoid the cycle of poverty, deprivation, and conflict

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From the Front Lines of Climate Change

2016-05-10

Securing an agreement in Paris was just the first step on a long road towards protecting the global climate and the world’s most vulnerable countries

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Why Corruption Matters

2016-05-09

Corruption, put simply, is the abuse of public office for personal gain. As leaders increasingly recognize, it is a menace to development, human dignity, and global security

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Is Globalization Really Fueling Populism?

2016-05-07

The prevailing explanation is that rising populism amounts to a rebellion by “globalization’s losers.

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Faulty Political Narratives

2016-05-05

Across Latin America, voters who, until recently, were enthusiastic about their leftist governments seem to be having a change of heart.

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