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    The End of Georgia’s European Dream?

    Salome Samadashvili

    Initial evidence suggests that the victory of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in the recent parliamentary election reflects widespread fraud. If the West fails to support democratic opposition parties in challenging the results, Georgia’s 30-year-old democracy could come to an end.

     urges Western leaders to take steps to halt the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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    The US Election and America’s Future

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    PS editors, Nouriel Roubini, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nina L. Khrushcheva, Edoardo Campanella, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq, John Mark Hansen, Reed Galen

    From the economy to foreign policy to democratic institutions, the two US presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, promise to pursue radically different agendas, reflecting sharply diverging visions for the United States and the world. Why is the race so nail-bitingly close, and how might the outcome change America?

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    No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

    Robert Z. Lawrence explains why there is no going back to the heyday of middle-class factory jobs for low-skilled workers.
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    Is Political Polling Broken?

    Michael A. Bailey urges pollsters to stop thinking in terms of random samples and instead focus on diagnosing non-response bias.
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    Belarus in the Dock

    Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė & Aarif Abraham explain why Lithuania is requesting an International Criminal Court investigation into its neighbor.
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    Japan’s Electoral Stalemate

    Takatoshi Ito considers the political and economic implications of the ruling bloc’s loss of its parliamentary majority.
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    Unlocking AI-Powered Learning

    Justina Nixon-Saintil foresees the technology enhancing student learning and creating new pathways to rewarding careers.
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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  1. The End of Georgia’s European Dream?
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    The End of Georgia’s European Dream?

    Oct 30, 2024 Salome Samadashvili urges Western leaders to take steps to halt the country’s slide into authoritarianism.

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    Belarus in the Dock

    Oct 30, 2024 Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė & Aarif Abraham explain why Lithuania is requesting an International Criminal Court investigation into its neighbor.

  3. Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Oct 30, 2024 Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.

  4. No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment
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    No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

    Oct 30, 2024 Robert Z. Lawrence explains why there is no going back to the heyday of middle-class factory jobs for low-skilled workers.

  5. Is Political Polling Broken?
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    Is Political Polling Broken?

    Oct 30, 2024 Michael A. Bailey urges pollsters to stop thinking in terms of random samples and instead focus on diagnosing non-response bias.

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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    The Brutes’ New Suits

    James Livingston asks why so many observers now believe that institutions central to modern economies are running a con game.
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    America’s Broken Constitution

    Nicholas Reed Langen sees the country’s politicized Supreme Court as the biggest obstacle to addressing many other problems.
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    Marietje Schaake on our tech overlords, antitrust, data protection, and more

    Marietje Schaake warns that Big Tech’s outsize influence threatens democracy, suggests what Western leaders can learn from Chinese technology governance, urges governments to use public procurement to influence the trajectory of digital technology, and more.

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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    Charting a Course for Coastal Resilience

    Karen Sack urges policymakers and business leaders to take the climate and biodiversity crises littorally.
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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.

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  1. Salome Samadashvili The End of Georgia’s European Dream?
  2. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, et al. Belarus in the Dock
  3. Michael A. Bailey Is Political Polling Broken?
  4. Joschka Fischer Don’t Dismiss the BRICS

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Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

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