Multinational corporations rely on supply chains, and climate change could disrupt the efficiency. Weather-related disasters from flooding, droughts and wildfires cost billions of dollars in damage. “Manufacturing these days involves facilities in multiple countries, each of which has a sequential...
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The European Union may strengthen after voters in the United Kingdom elected to withdraw from the Union, and Chris Miller, associate director of Yale’s Grand Strategy Program, offers analysis as to why: Britain’s economic challenges could prompt hesitation among other members contemplating a...
Falsehoods and second thoughts: Britain’s Brexit proponent Boris Johnson gave false hopes to voters, top, while Austria’s far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has chosen to support EU
NEW HAVEN: Events since the Brexit vote suggest that...
Monarchists maintain that the system's perks include continuity in governance and preparation of leaders. Uncertainty follows the death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, especially for the US pivot to Asia, suggests David Brunnstrom for Reuters. In the article, Murray Hiebert...
The death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday adds a new layer of uncertainty to U.S. President Barack Obama's faltering "pivot" to Asia less than a month before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential elections.
The king was important in...
Global trade, exports from China and commodity prices are in decline – and these trends are interconnected, argues Daniel Gros for Project Syndicate. Some analysts contend that globalization is dead, and Gros offers a reminder that globalization is not limited to trade: “Globalization entails many...
Read the article from Project Syndicate. Daniel Gros is director of the Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, and served as an economic adviser to the European Commission, the European...
Europeans and their leaders increasingly struggle over integration. Writing for New Statesman, Brendan Simms and Timothy Less remind that such struggles have historical precedents, including the breakups of Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Those examples are used to analyze a...
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