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  Ukraine is approaching its fourth year of war. The conflict is now only four months short of lasting as long as World War I. The Ukrainian people and government have fought bravely, showed resilience, tactical competence and were in many respects successful. Russia, however, remains stronger and has greater resources. Support from the West, […]

  During the post-Cold War period, unilateral sanctions were often used by the United States to impose economic costs on adversaries. These measures were also meant to influence and shape the foreign or domestic policy behavior of weaker states to reinforce Washington’s unipolar status. However, since 2022, and arguably even earlier, unilateral sanctions regimes began […]

  The outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 led governments around the world to adopt an extraordinary set of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs), including lockdowns, school closures, limits on mobility, and border restrictions. These measures were unprecedented in scale and intrusiveness, and they were implemented despite limited knowledge about their real effects. Existing pandemic preparedness plans […]

  Over the past decade, the economic gap between the United States and the European Union has widened. What was once a slow divergence has accelerated since the pandemic, as growth, productivity and investment increasingly favor the U.S. This gap is more than a statistical curiosity; it reflects a deepening divide in policy orientation and […]

On John Perry Barlow’s a Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Described by a rock-poet, governed by idealists, colonised by corporations.   Two hundred and fifty years ago, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence for a new, unregulated territory. Thirty years ago, at Davos, John Perry Barlow wrote his own “Declaration of the Independence […]