Publications
385 published articles
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SocietyNaval Ravikant: Wealth, Freedom and Power in the Age of Digital Leverage
Naval Ravikant has never built an industrial empire, controlled a global social network or become the public face of a technological conglomerate. His influence is more difficult to measure than market capitalization or political authority. It lies in the circulation of ideas. En
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Asia-PacificIndonesia: The Quiet Giant of the Indo-Pacific
With more than 285 million people, some 17,000 islands, Southeast Asia’s largest economy and a geographic position at the heart of the maritime routes connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Indonesia possesses nearly all the attributes of a major power. Yet it remains relative
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EconomicsThe BIS: the central bank of central banks?
In Basel, an institution largely unknown to the general public regularly brings together those responsible for the world’s major monetary systems. Yet the Bank for International Settlements sets no policy rate, does not lend to governments in crisis and does not command any centr
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Reports and StudiesThe Arms Industry: An Engine of Developed Economies?
Long regarded as a peculiar sector — essential to sovereignty but peripheral to the ordinary economy — the defense industry is returning to the center of industrial policy. European rearmament, the war in Ukraine, tensions in Asia and the modernization of military arsenals are tu
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SocietyPeter Thiel: Power, Technology and the Revolt of Silicon Valley’s Elites
Peter Thiel is difficult to fit into a single category. Entrepreneur, investor, billionaire, libertarian intellectual, political donor, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Facebook’s first major outside investor and a central figure at Founders Fund, he simultaneously belongs to t
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GeopoliticsSpain–Morocco: The Indispensable Relationship
Fourteen kilometres apart at their closest point, Spain and Morocco have long maintained a relationship shaped by geographic proximity, historical mistrust and periodic crises. Yet beneath territorial, migration and diplomatic disputes, a much deeper interdependence has gradually
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Latin AmericaBrazil: the Power That Refuses to Choose Sides
With more than 210 million people, a near-continental territory, vast natural resources and an economy worth more than $2 trillion, Brazil possesses many of the material attributes of power. But its importance may lie even more in what it refuses to become: a simple satellite of
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EconomicsThe World Bank: Financing Development, Shaping States
The IMF intervenes when a state risks running out of financial oxygen. The World Bank acts on what that state may become ten, twenty or thirty years from now. Behind loans to build roads, modernize power grids, finance schools or reform public administrations stands one of the most influential institutions in the international economic order.
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SocietyDemocracy Without Readers: Information, Attention and Public Life in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Never before has humanity had access to so much information. Never has it been so easy to learn the result of an election on the other side of the world, consult a company’s accounts, read the text of a law, follow a war almost in real time, or access the publications of an inter
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PoliticsDonald J. Trump: America Redefined
Donald Trump represents more than a presidency: he embodies a lasting transformation of political language, institutions and America’s relationship with the world.
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GlobalGlobal Trends: One Planet, Diverging Trajectories
Demographics, urbanization, energy, trade, technology, resources, climate, migration and rearmament are transforming the global system simultaneously. These forces are global. Their effects are not. Behind the world's headline indicators lies an increasingly differentiated landscape, in which every region enters the next decade with profoundly different constraints, resources and trajectories.
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Middle EastIsrael: Power Under Pressure
Between domestic divisions and a shifting regional order, Israel’s power are coming under increasing pressure. An analysis of the strengths and vulnerabilities redefining its place in the Middle East.