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Global South must claim the climate mantle at COP30

Maiara Folly, Jayati Ghosh, Jörg Haas WASHINGTON, DC/NEW DELHI/BERLIN : Of all the seismic geopolitical shifts in recent years, perhaps the most striking is the West’s rapid decline as a force in global climate governance. Under President Donald Trump’s second administration, the United States has become both more aggressive and

Keeping the Transatlantic Relationship Alive

For starters, all the joint (transatlantic) work done since NATO’s Wales Summit in 2014 has already established a solid foundation.

An Agenda for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises

Governments, international financial institutions, and civil-society organizations, recognizing the need to tackle today’s debt and development crises, are ready for

Trump’s Alaska Folly

Putin has no reason to prefer Trump’s vision of a beautiful future to his own: a Ukraine with a puppet

Climate Security Is Energy Security

Climate technologies that are already commercially viable could help, of course. But taking full advantage of the lower prices of

The Age of AI Soft Power

AI leaders like OpenAI and DeepMind see themselves as being in a race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI): a

Climate Resilience Is a Strategic Investment

Perhaps more importantly, these shocks are exacerbating unsustainable debt burdens at a time when donor countries are slashing development aid,

Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany

Worse, it was the SPD’s own coalition partner, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), that suddenly shifted from supporting Frauke

The Duty to Protect the Climate

In a David-versus-Goliath moment, the tiny Pacific Island state of Vanuatu recently changed international law forever by bringing the world’s most

Can Democracy Survive AI?

That means the coming AI revolution may render closed political systems more stable than open ones. In an age of