The Accountability Gap: Why Sovereign Finance Needs a New Funding Architecture

In the high-stakes world of global sovereign finance, there is a recurring, costly pattern: governments borrow in the dark, citizens pay the price in the light of a crisis, and…

Reinventing Europe: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Calls for Strategic Confidence over Crisis Panic

By PS Editors October 23, 2026 In an era defined by geopolitical volatility, rapid technological disruption, and shifting global supply chains, the imperative to "reinvent" Europe has become a recurring…

The Gathering Storm: Assessing the Convergence of Crisis in Contemporary China

By Navneeraj Sharma and Arvind Subramanian October 23, 2026 The twenty-first century has been defined by a relentless cadence of geopolitical and macroeconomic tremors. From the destabilizing aftermath of the…

The Internal Erosion: Can the European Union Survive its Own Populist Turn?

By Janis A. Emmanouilidis October 22, 2026 BRUSSELS — For years, the European Union has defined its existential challenges through the prism of external pressures: the shadow of Russian expansionism…

The Climate-Competitiveness Nexus: Why Europe’s Economic Future Depends on Climate Resilience

By Ambroise Fayolle October 22, 2026 In the corridors of power in Luxembourg and Brussels, a long-standing dichotomy is finally collapsing. For decades, policymakers and industrial leaders framed the transition…

The Twilight of Hegemony: Redefining Global Power in the Mid-2020s

By Carl Bildt October 21, 2026 The traditional geopolitical map, once dominated by the binary poles of the Cold War and subsequently the singular, unchallenged dominance of the American "unipolar…

The Architecture of Belief: Why Our AI Future Depends on the Stories We Tell

By Richard K. Sherwin October 21, 2026 The mythos—the foundational architecture of our collective consciousness—is no longer a matter of mere academic interest. In the rapidly unfolding age of artificial…

The Silent Pandemic: Why Economic Policy is Failing the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

By Jim O’Neill October 15, 2026 In the global theater of public health, few threats are as existential, yet as systematically ignored, as antimicrobial resistance (AMR). While the world remains…

The Erosion of the Big Tent: Has the CDU Lost Its Moral Compass?

By Jan-Werner Mueller October 15, 2026 For decades, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) stood as the bedrock of German stability. From the reconstruction of the post-war era under Konrad Adenauer…

The Argentine Mirage: Why the Milei Model Is a Cautionary Tale for Brazil’s Future

By Laura Carvalho, Martín Guzmán, and Joseph E. Stiglitz October 14, 2026 As Brazil braces for a high-stakes presidential runoff, the political discourse has sharpened into a battle between two…