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Foreign and security policy

The OSCE’s midlife crisis

50 years after its foundation, the OSCE has remained a club of non-like-minded states. But as autocracies rise, the organisation might lose relevance

By Cornelius Friesendorf

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Work and digitalisation

The inflated sum of AI fears

The 'AI ride' will for sure be bumpy. But the specific changes AI will unleash, on the whole, will be changes for the better

By Michael R. Strain

Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi

Economy and ecology

Who can buy their way out of the climate crisis?

To fight climate change, we must find a new way of doing business. The biggest CO2 emitters must help those who can’t afford it but are most affected

By Markus Engels

Reuters/ Jonathan Ernst

Democracy and society

Undemocratic, but still successful with voters

How autocrats convince voters to sacrifice abstract interests like democracy

By Filip Milačić

Reuters/David Gray

Foreign and security policy

Papua New Guinea: Friend to all, enemy to none

China and the US are both courting Papua New Guinea. But the Americans are making it easy for their competitor to gain a stronghold on the island

By Barbara Barkhausen

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Economy and ecology

Putting lipstick on the tax pig

Bilateral double-taxation treaties seem self-evidently fair. But behind the supposedly good intentions lie decades of inequality and exploitation

By Jayati Ghosh

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Work and digitalisation

How much work is enough?

Millions have used the past three years to re-evaluate the trade-off between time and money. And it's kick-starting a revolution in the labour market

By Anne-Marie Slaughter, Autumn McDonald

Reuters/The Yomiuri Shimbun

Foreign and security policy

No risk, no trade

The G7 has agreed on a new strategy towards China. Whether this will lead to a real change in the relationship with Asia's superpower is questionable

By Herbert Wulf

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Democracy and society

Remembering the pandemic

To ensure that we heed the lessons of Covid-19 we must fight the urge to forget

By William Haseltine

Reuters/Andrew Biraj

Economy and ecology

The lethal price of sweatshop development

Ten years ago, the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 garment workers. Since then, little has been done to improve working conditions

By Antara Haldar