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Talk of the “next recession” is often dismissed as alarmist fear-mongering. The wounds of the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting...

A century ago, only 10 percent of us lived in cities. According to the UN, 55 percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas,...

When the history of the first two decades of the 21st century is written, along with the paradigm shifts caused by 9/11, the Arab Spring...

Relations between China and the Arab world are as simple as 1+2+3. That’s the formulation conceived by Beijing two years ago in an...

On August 6, Donald Trump’s administration reimposed economic sanctions on Iran that Barack Obama’s administration had lifted when it...

A new reality has emerged on the world stage, and at the heart of it is Donald Trump’s leadership of the world’s largest economy and most...

When British economist Jim O’Neill dubbed the fast-growing, large, emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China as...

This article was originally published by The Washington Post on May 18, 2018. View it here. The Trump administration has vowed to crack...

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs. View it here. Over the last seven years, social...

Over the last seven years, social upheavals and civil wars have torn apart the political order that had defined the Middle East ever...