Geopolitics

While Southern Europe is in a depression and subject to political wild cards, Germany (and Northern Europe) are complacent. Germany has it both ways because it sustained its own growth …

E pluribus unum.  To make one out of many is the challenge of every nation that wants to call itself a Union.  In North America, the Union was forged by …

Foreign aid has been getting a bad press this year – and not without reason. For a long time bilateral aid in particular has been seen as too small and …

A new risk has risen as the year begins: we have entered an interdependent world which is both post-democratic, dysfunctional, and with no one at the helm. Only the collective …

The root of the Euro crisis lies in both the inadequate institutional set up of the Eurozone, which lacks a genuine lender of last resort and sufficiently coordinated fiscal and …