ENVIRONMENT
Climate change has been the subject of intense public policy discussion for at least 25 years, since the 1992 landmark Earth Summit in Rio de…
INSIGHT
- by Paula DiPerna, Special Advisor, CDP
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
In recent years, China and its Belt and Road Initiative have comprehensively appropriated the term “Silk Road.” But before China, one of the first East…
ANALYSIS
- by Timur Dadabaev, University of Tsukuba
DEMOCRACY
Following shocking revelations in the wake of the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election, the terms “fake news factories” and “troll armies” entered the global…
ANALYSIS
- by Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of Massachusetts Amherst
DEMOCRACY
By any measure, China’s inequality in wealth and income has risen at an alarming pace, reaching new heights in recent years. A Peking University study…
ANALYSIS
- by Minxin Pei, Claremont McKenna College
ENVIRONMENT
“Good food”—food that nourishes communities and sustains healthy ecologies—has been at the center of social movements around the world over the past four decades. The…
INSIGHT
- by Caroline Merrifield, Yale University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
In an article from early 2017, titled “China’s Debt-Trap Diplomacy,” geopolitics pundit Brahma Chellaney argued that China has sought to purposely ensnare some of its…
ANALYSIS
- by Matt Ferchen, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
ENVIRONMENT
Energy has been in the global spotlight for some time, including in the fast-growing economies of Southeast Asia. While governments and media showcase the steps…
ANALYSIS
- by Mattijs Smits, Wageningen University and Research
CITIES
As the science around smart cities becomes ever more sophisticated, the sensibilities of their inhabitants may yet be increasingly offended. Whereas cameras with real-time facial…
ANALYSIS
- by Sun Sun Lim and Roland Bouffanais, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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