Publications
385 published articles
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SocietyAI: Growth Without Entry-Level Jobs?
Artificial intelligence is already helping sustain the global economy through the scale of investment it generates. Yet behind the promises of productivity and economic growth, a less visible transformation is emerging: the gradual automation of the tasks through which young graduates have traditionally entered professional life.
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CorporateIndia: Industry Without Factories
The global manufacturing industry may be changing one of its oldest rules: producing goods no longer necessarily requires owning the factories.
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Latin AmericaUruguay: The Strength of Moderation
Between Brazil and Argentina, two countries whose size, ambitions, and crises have often shaped the destiny of South America, Uruguay occupies a distinctive position.
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Reports and StudiesAutomotive: The Great Shakeout
In-depth report — Restructuring, successes, failures and the outlook for the global automotive industry
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TechnologyStarlink: The Battle for Control of Telecommunications
SpaceX's aggressive expansion into mobile spectrum signals a potentially major transformation of the global telecommunications industry.
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EuropeFrance: Europe's New Sovereign Risk
France is undergoing a fundamental shift in Europe's financial hierarchy. Long regarded as one of the pillars of eurozone stability, it is increasingly emerging as one of its principal sources of vulnerability.
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Arctic & Polar RegionsArctic: The New Route Between Asia and Europe
The return of the South Korean container ship PanStar Acro to Busan, following an experimental commercial voyage through the Arctic, illustrates a potential transformation in the geography of global trade.
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EuropeEurope: The Budgetary Price of Power
By proposing a €141 billion reduction in the European Union’s next long-term budget, the Irish presidency has confronted the Twenty-Seven with a fundamental contradiction.
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PoliticsInternational Justice Confronts American Power
By imposing sanctions directly on the International Criminal Court, Washington has taken its confrontation with international justice to a new level.
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GeopoliticsRussia: Diesel Cracks the Sanctions Regime
Russian refining infrastructure lies at the center of a new trade-off between American energy security and economic sanctions against Moscow.
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GeopoliticsRussia: Influence Without Allegiance
Russia can lose markets, see its arms exports decline and still retain considerable power to shape world affairs. It can face opposition within a society while becoming indispensable to its leaders. It can inspire a government’s distrust while continuing to maintain its military equipment, supply its energy or participate in negotiations on which its security depends. This coexistence of vulnerability and influence is one of the defining characteristics of Russian power.
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PoliticsUnited States: Power at the Midpoint
With twelve days remaining before the midterm elections, the United States is preparing to renew its Congress amid economic tensions, political realignment, and international uncertainty. Donald Trump will not appear on the November 3 ballot. Yet the election will determine a substantial part of the conditions under which he can exercise power during the final two years of his presidency.