Optimists have faith that the EU will always pull through but crisis-fighting depends on choices made in Berlin.

Will Palestinians ever recover from the famine and destruction?

China is not competing with India for the attentions of Western hedge funds. And though FDI to China has fallen off a cliff, given the vast stock of foreign capital already committed to China, it will take years before the total foreign commitment to India matches that already committed to China.

These are anxious times in Germany. Two issues dominate the headlines: economic malaise, and the alarming surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany, which at about 22 per cent now outpolls each of the three governing parties.

After last week’s BRICS meeting in South Africa, the question hangs in the air: what does the west have to offer a new, multipolar world?

But when you emerge from the state of emergency, as Europe seems to be doing this summer, it forces the question: what crisis comes next and what will be the solution?

The green-hydrogen industry is a case study in the potential—for better and worse—of our new economic era.

Join us for a conversation between Carnegie nonresident scholar Adam Tooze and Carnegie president Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar. This event is part of a series on the global political economy organized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Last year, inflation hawks in Europe and the US were obsessing about the threat of wage-price spirals. As it turns out, inflation not only failed to accelerate but is now well off its peaks. Nevertheless, the scaremongering goes on.

The messy nature of decisions is important both for US citizens and the world.