News archive 12/2019 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Europe

A Bismarckian welfare state for the Western Balkans?

What Bismarck would say about social protection in times of a changing world of work. A thought experiment

By Paul Stubbs

Reuters

Europe

Reigning in the EU’s financiers of austerity

A democratic assembly should replace the powerful brokers of the Eurogroup, Thomas Piketty and other thinkers argue

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

Global

The scramble for the Arctic

With climate change, geopolitical interests now compete in the Arctic for raw materials, trade routes and military bases

By Arne Lietz

Reuters

Interviews

'Revitalise the multilateral project'

Before the UN's 75th anniversary, it's time to listen to the people again, says Special Advisor Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond

Reuters

North America

Elizabeth Warren’s bold ideas don’t go far enough

What America needs are policies to shape the direction of technological development and restore workers' bargaining power

By Daron Acemoglu

Reuters

Interviews

'Driven by the same fear'

What's going on in France? Luc Rouban on common causes of left and right-wing protests and the role of Macron

Reuters

North America

Trump’s bad. Sadly, he’s not alone

How Washington's climate of confusion and cynicism allows Trump to prosper

By Maureen Dowd

Pixabay

North America

GDP is broken, but we can fix it

The statistics keep on rising, but they don’t track the well-being of most Americans. It's time for an adjustment

By David Leonhardt

Reuters

Interviews

‘An unpredictable player’

Established parties are still struggling to deal with Germany's right-wing populists. A conversation with Wolfgang Schroeder

Reuters

Future of social democracy

If wealth is justified, so is a wealth tax

US billionaires have dismissed wealth-tax proposals. But they only gained wealth because of legal subsidies from the state

By Katharina Pistor