Publications
385 published articles
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EconomicsThe International Monetary Fund: Guardian of the Global System’s Crises
When a state can no longer finance itself normally, its foreign-exchange reserves are being depleted and market confidence is collapsing, one institution often moves to the center of the equation: the International Monetary Fund.
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EconomicsWTO: The Weakened Arbiter of Global Trade
It was meant to transform global trade into a system governed by rules. Three decades later, the World Trade Organization remains at the heart of international commerce, but the major powers are once again learning to trade according to the imperatives of security, sovereignty and power.
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Reports and StudiesThe International Monetary System: The Financial Architecture of the World
Behind every international payment, every sovereign debt issue, every foreign-exchange reserve and every financial crisis lies a global architecture that no single authority fully controls.
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GlobalWho Controls the Seas?
Maritime power is not measured solely by the number of aircraft carriers a country possesses. It also resides in merchant fleets, straits, ports, flags, insurers, submarine cables and the rules that allow global trade to move. No one controls the oceans outright — yet their functioning depends on a surprisingly small number of actors and chokepoints.
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Defense & SecurityBeneath the Oceans, the Arteries of Digital Power
The digital economy favors aerial metaphors. Data circulates through the “cloud,” companies deploy “dematerialized” services, markets operate in real time, and communications appear to travel instantaneously through a borderless space. Yet this representation conceals a far more
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MarketsThe World Under Insurance
The invisible power of those who decide which risks can still be taken
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MarketsThe Trading Giants: The Companies That Keep the Global Economy Moving
They do not always produce the oil, copper or wheat. Nor do they consume it. But between the two, they organise part of the world.
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EconomicsLiberalism: The History of an Idea That Became a System
Liberalism is now everywhere and nowhere. It structures much of the contemporary political order, underpins the functioning of market economies, and permeates concepts that have become almost universal: individual freedom, property, equality before the law, freedom of expression,
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SocietyRights, Women, Family: The Recomposition of the Social Order
For centuries, in most societies, the individual was not the fundamental unit of the social order. People belonged first to a family, lineage, community, caste, clan or religious order. Their rights, obligations, property, marriage and sometimes even occupation were largely deter
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Oceania & PacificAustralia: Between Asia and the West
Australia occupies a singular position in the international system. Geographically, it belongs fully to the Indo-Pacific. Historically, institutionally and strategically, it remains deeply connected to the Western world. Economically, meanwhile, it depends heavily on trade with A
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AfricaSouth Africa: What Remains of the Miracle
In 1994, South Africa appeared to accomplish the improbable. After decades of apartheid, political violence, international sanctions and confrontations that many feared would culminate in civil war, the country held its first democratic elections under universal suffrage. Nelson
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AfricaThe Moroccan Paradox: A Country Moving Forward, a Society Still Waiting
Morocco is building ports, highways, railway lines, energy infrastructure and industrial zones. It manufactures automobiles and aerospace components, exports processed phosphates, attracts international investment and is becoming increasingly integrated into European and global v