Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Historians may have paid too much attention to hierarchies and too little to the loose social networks that often end up disrupting them.
Schooling is not the same as learning. In other words, going to school, and getting a diploma, does not mean that the student has learned much.
Before, companies needed financial, human, technological and brand capital to succeed. From here on they will also need digital capital.
Both the new nuclear stance and the growing energy autonomy of the United States reinforce the isolationism that characterizes President Donald Trump’s mindset.
The plan to upgrade China’s energy mix, announced by President Xi Jinping during the 19th National Congress of the CCP, faces five political and economic challenges that could hinder its implementation.
Russia is Venezuela’s lender of last resort, the last and only place the government can turn in search of a financial lifeline.
The implicit purpose of many dystopian novels is to illustrate today’s world through the description of the future.
The Internet makes apathetic voters especially vulnerable to the manipulations of demagogues, particular interests, or even foreign powers.
The world needs permanent organizations that earn political power and govern, that are forced to articulate disparate interests and viewpoints, that can recruit and develop future government leaders and that monitor those already in power.
For all its bellicose talk and new sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s government, the Trump administration has been oddly silent about Russia’s role, perhaps preferring not to draw attention to the fact that Moscow is now the bankrupt nation’s lender of last resort.
