A year ago, as the UN80 process gathered momentum, I argued that the reform effort, while rightly addressing the UN’s sprawling bureaucracy, overlapping mandates and…
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Leaders of the G7 gathered in France this week amid growing geopolitical uncertainty and mounting global challenges. In an era marked by fragmentation and strategic…
In a thoughtful recent essay in the Financial Times, economist and former IMF Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan argues that the world’s “dog-eat-dog” international order urgently…
Amid the ongoing economic and geopolitical upheaval catalyzed by America’s 180-degree systemic repositioning under Donald Trump, countries now finding themselves decoupled from the erstwhile democratic…
A crisis that tests the rules The outlines of the recent U.S. military operation in Venezuela are now well established. In early January 2026, U.S.…
I was a young economist at the International Monetary Fund in the early 1990s working in its main policy-making department and, on the side, going…
Where do women stand internationally in 2024? The just-released third edition of the Gender Equality and Governance Index (GEGI) attempts to answer that question by looking at…
The debate around the need to reform the global financial architecture to address its vulnerabilities is a vitally important part of a broader debate about…
Many political analysts globally are increasingly alarmed; we seem to be approaching one of the most dangerous periods since the end of World War II. …
Years ago, one of us was walking with a colleague who had experience working in the UN Secretary-General’s Office. He asked, pointedly: “Do you think…