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Economy and ecology

What supply chain disruptions mean for developing countries

As maritime transport freight rates reach a historic high, they drive rampant inflation — in particular in Global South countries and far away islands

By Jan Hoffmann

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Economy and ecology

Control the vampire companies

Fossil fuel companies, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and agribusinesses have all reaped huge profits in the past two years. It’s time to rein them in

By Jayati Ghosh

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From my bookshelf

Will traditional wars become rarer?

While the war in Ukraine brutally illustrates the costs of conventional warfare, non-military means are gaining a strategic role in conflicts

By Marius Müller-Hennig

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Economy and ecology

How Germany can tackle the looming global sovereign debt crisis

The high indebtedness of many developing countries could trigger a global debt crisis. But the German G7 presidency can point the way forward

By Armand Zorn

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Democracy and society

Heroes of the Apocalypse

The war in Ukraine has made it clear that we can’t go on with business as usual. This is our wakeup call to change for the better

By Slavoj Žižek

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Democracy and society

The time to support the Global South is now

The war in Ukraine has monopolised the Global North’s attention and resources when the Global South is still dealing with the effect of many crises

By Martin Schulz

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Democracy and society

The false promise of democratic peace

The belief that democracies don’t start wars, but only dictatorships do, has been central to the Anglo-American worldview. But it is more complicated

By Robert Skidelsky

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Work and digitalisation

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a colossally bad idea

Elon Musk mistakes Twitter for some sort of ‘digital town square’. In reality, it’s a global publisher that — like any other — needs to be regulated

By Steven Hill

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Economy and ecology

How the war in Ukraine impacts global supply chains

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience

By Ram Ganeshan, Tonya Boone

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Democracy and society

On the importance of disagreement

For democracy to survive, we need in-depth engagements with different perspectives and arguments — and not black and white thinking

By Anja Wehler-Schöck