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The EU's toothless trade policy

The EU Commission fails to enforce trade agreements' social and environmental norms. Just look at the case of South Korea

By Miriam-Lena Horn

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Why state capitalism isn’t primarily geopolitical

States like China rarely use foreign investment for geopolitical goals. They try to reap the benefits of a globalised economy

By Milan Babic

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Economy and ecology

The fierce urgency of COP26

With a US administration under Trump, European unity and leadership is the only hope for driving China's climate ambitions

By Adam Tooze

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Zombie capitalism must die!

Cheap money in the hands of speculators causes high economic, social and political costs. It’s time for the state to act

By Marc Saxer

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Democracy and society

How tax breaks undermine the SDGs

Tax incentives are largely redundant, inefficient and unnecessarily erode public financing for development in the Global South

By Neeti Biyani

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Foreign and security policy

From digital diplomacy to data diplomacy

The digital revolution arrived late at the heart of Western diplomacy. But greater data capacities hold a lot of promise

By Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

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Disarm the G20!

The nuclear arms race threatens our very existence. Where's the protest movement demanding the disarmament of the G20?

By Herbert Wulf

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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

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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

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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