The G8 Leap of 2013: Needs to be higher, farther
The recently concluded G8 meeting at Lough Erne took an unprecedented leap by turning the focus on corporate governance. Among the greatest institutional challenges of our times, is the regulation of...
View ArticleWhen the Party’s Over: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective
Fiscal austerity, fiscal consolidation and spending cutbacks currently dominate the politics of many of the world's democracies. Old political arguments are being tested with new battles emerging over...
View ArticleOn the path to inequality
What do we really know about how wealth and income have evolved since the 18th century and what lessons can we take from that for centuries to come? For Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First...
View ArticleThe EU and the one billion bitcoin question
From London to Rome, Warsaw and Athens, mainstream politicians seem determined to give us yet more of the medicine that caused the problems in the first place: deregulation, marketization,...
View ArticleAusterity and Euroscepticism: The End of EU Development Cooperation?
The financial crisis and its aftermath have brought to light the crisis of European integration, more precisely the crisis and potential demise of a certain approach to integration pursued since the...
View ArticleTransition and unease in the Arabian peninsula: a radio interview
Yemen continues to lurch from crisis to crisis. Last September, Houthi rebels (Zaydi Shi’ites from Yemen’s north) overran the capital Sana’a and have continued their push for geographical and political...
View ArticleTime is running out for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
In 2013, the European Union and the United States launched negotiations for a comprehensive trade agreement (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP). TTIP's objective is to facilitate...
View ArticleAngola’s Perfect Storm
In a new article for Foreign Affairs, I discuss the perils of Angola’s reliance on declining oil revenues. Here are the first few paragraphs. In early 2014, Angola, sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest...
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