Publication: Project Syndicate
The Real Failure Is Pakistan
18.08.21 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – There is only one good thing about the fact that the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks will take place less than a month...
Read moreHow to Make Japan Great Again
06.10.20 Publication: Project Syndicate
DUBLIN – Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has arrived with a suite of ambitious policy ideas, including plans to digitize government services...
Read moreThe Japan Shinzo Abe has left Behind
28.08.20 Publication: Project Syndicate
DUBLIN – Shinzo Abe’s sudden resignation (on health grounds) ends the tenure of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. The country’s most...
Read moreToward a 2021 Tokyo Olympics
24.03.20 Publication: Project Syndicate
With the global COVID-19 crisis quickly escalating, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had to accept a hard truth, rightly taking the initiative...
Read moreWhat Brexit Reveals About the EU
30.10.19 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – In another bizarre twist in the Brexit saga, the United Kingdom’s Parliament has signalled its acceptance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s...
Read moreSpringtime for Nationalism?
01.04.19 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – Is populism still on the rise? That question will be looming over elections in Israel, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Spain, and the European...
Read moreHard Brexit Truths
03.01.19 Publication: Project Syndicate
DUBLIN – The March 29, 2019, deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union is fast approaching, yet it remains far from clear how the departure...
Read moreKim and Trump
25.05.18 Publication: Project Syndicate
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to cancel the June 12 summit with Kim Jong-un represents a great diplomatic coup for the young North Korean leader....
Read moreChina and Trump
08.04.18 Publication: Project Syndicate
We are about to witness a historic test of the wills and self-confidence of two superpowers, China and America, and of two leaders who see themselves as...
Read moreA ‘China First’ strategy for North Korea
04.09.17 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – Most pundits agree that the least bad way to deal with North Korea’s nuclear saber rattling is a continued combination of tight containment and...
Read moreA ´China First´ strategy for North Korea
04.09.17 Publication: Project Syndicate
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Read moreBritain En Marche
24.07.17 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – We live in an age of political turbulence. Parties barely a year old have recently swept to power in France and in the huge metropolitan area of...
Read moreThe Wages of Wage Fear
10.05.17 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – If all else fails, try the previously unthinkable. It is not a bad principle for economic policy in the best of times. Today, it may be just what is...
Read morePreparing for President Trump
13.05.16 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – As America’s friends and allies look on in astonishment at the all-but-certain prospect of a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in...
Read moreDonald Trump´s Italian prototype
15.03.16 Publication: Project Syndicate
TOKYO – The rise of billionaire Donald Trump in the US presidential race has been met with a mixture of horror and fascination. As his campaign, once...
Read moreOil Dictator Dominos
05.02.16 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain to some and benefit others—yet...
Read morePatriotism in the Age of Globalisation
22.12.15 Publication: Project Syndicate
LONDON – The new fault line in politics, according to Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front, is between globalists and patriots. It is...
Read moreLife after Schengen
01.10.15 Publication: Project Syndicate
Throughout Europe’s refugee crisis, which has been building for well over two years, warnings about the threat to the European Union’s precious Schengen...
Read moreThe Great Emerging Market Bubble
15.08.15 Publication: Project Syndicate
Something has gone badly wrong in the emerging economies that were supposed to be shaping, even dominating, the future of the world. The search for culprits is...
Read moreShinzo Abe’s pivot to Asia
15.06.15 Publication: Project Syndicate
Over the past year, relations among East Asia’s three most successful economies – Japan, South Korea, and China – have been slowly but steadily...
Read moreA “Merkel Plan” for Europe
19.01.15 Publication: Project Syndicate
Ever since Europe’s economic crisis erupted more than four years ago, politicians and pundits have clamored for a grand solution, often invoking the example...
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