On August 4, 1914, Europe eagerly blundered into the slaughterhouse of World War I. One hundred years later, with the nation-state still very much alive and rising powers once again challenging the established global order, what lessons does the Great War offer?
Aug 4, 2014 Joschka Fischer worries about the EU's lack of preparedness for the return of power politics.
Jul 25, 2014 Michael Spence warns that political instability and conflict are now the main threat to the global economy.
Jul 21, 2014 Jeffrey D. Sachs on why global instability today does not have to end as badly as it did in 1914.
Jul 8, 2014 Shlomo Ben-Ami on why the turmoil in the Arab Middle East is a problem that only Arabs can solve.
Jul 1, 2014 Joschka Fischer argues that George W. Bush and Barack Obama must share the blame for the region's growing chaos.
Jun 25, 2014 Dominique Moisi asks whether today's leaders, unlike their counterparts in 1914, can avert a global catastrophe.
Jan 30, 2025 Michael Spence
Jan 31, 2025 Lucrezia Reichlin
Jan 27, 2025 Harold James
Jan 28, 2025 Katharina Pistor
Within his first month back in the White House, Donald Trump has upended US foreign policy and launched an all-out assault on the country’s constitutional order. With US institutions bowing or buckling as the administration takes executive power to unprecedented extremes, the establishment of an authoritarian regime cannot be ruled out.
