Project Syndicate

At our recent #LCAW2025 event, Asahi’s Preeti Srivastav explained that delivering on sustainability demands fundamental reform of corporate structures and ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

While climate change increasingly affects people’s daily lives, nature is even closer to people’s hearts, says Ilona Szabó de Carvalho ... Show more

Melanie W. Sisson thinks displays of US military might are not uniquely persuasive, no matter what Vice President J.D. Vance says. The “Trump Doctrine” Is Wishful Thinking

Zhang Jun singles out the country’s massive scale, inclusive education, and horizontal competition. Demystifying China’s Manufacturing Success

Keith Tuffley sees reason to hope for progress on preserving one of Earth’s most powerful defenses against climate change. Brazil’s Moment to Lead on Forest Conservation

Donald Trump has destroyed American power and prestige with dizzying speed. The new issue of our magazine, PS Quarterly: Post Americana ... Show more

Magazines

Zongyuan Zoe Liu explains how the US administration’s erratic tariff theatrics have given its main rival a strategic edge. China Is Winning Trump’s Trade War

Zia Qureshi foresees geopolitical shifts, new technologies, and climate change remaking the world’s supply chains. What Happens Next to Globalization?

Adekeye Adebajo urges Europeans to abandon their ineffective and hypocritical approach to migration from the continent. Fortress Europe’s African Victims

Climate action requires economies of scale. Real climate progress depends on collaboration, argues Jonquil Hackenberg, CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation ... Show more

Mark Leonard explains what the French president’s state visit to London portends for the UK-EU relationship. Britain and Europe Are Changing Together

This year's sudden, sharp cuts to aid budgets are uncomfortable, even painful, and in some cases they will cost lives. But that is precisely why Africans must ... Show more

Breaking Africa’s Cycle of Dependency

Historian James Livingston explains why The New Yorker's John Cassidy’s new book is much more timely, useful, and important than it would be even if all he had ... Show more

Markets and Their Discontents

Jeffrey Wu explains how the Chinese industrial model is reshaping global competition across many sectors. China’s Unbeatable New Export

Susan Stokes sees the US president’s pressure on universities as a textbook sign of a country sliding into autocracy. Why Trump Is Attacking the Academy

Zaki Laïdi explains how internal divisions and outdated assumptions have left the continent in a precarious position. Why Is Europe Afraid of Defending Itself?

Daniel Gros attributes diverging views on trade to differences in institutions, social resilience, and political narratives. Why Americans and Europeans Disagree About Globalization

Claudio de Sanctis sees a need for more financial innovation to bring blue-economy investments into the mainstream. Rethinking Ocean Finance

Small climate victories are a distraction. Doughnut Economics Action Lab’s Erinch Sahan warns that celebrating the progress happening within existing systems ... Show more

James Livingston foresees the end of capitalism but not of the institution with which it has long been identified. Markets and Their Discontents

Koichi Hamada advises countries to take their time, think strategically, and broaden the scope of trade talks. How to Negotiate With Trump

Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest. Trump’s America Is a Tinderbox

Have businesses failed on ESG messaging? Recent Kantar research found that consumers rate 83% of brands negatively on sustainability ... Show more

Ylli Bajraktari & André Loesekrug-Pietri offer a roadmap for closer US European coordination in strategically important sectors. Ending European Tech Stagnation

Barry Eichengreen observes that whereas US and German fiscal policies imply higher government debt, the similarities end there. A Tale of Two Budgets

If multilateralists do not yet feel like a Soviet official at the end of 1989, they have not been paying attention. But their future need not be as bleak as it ... Show more

Multilateralism in a Post-American World

Dani Rodrik sees an crucial lesson for students of political economy in the United States’ rollback of green subsidies. When Ideology Trumps Economic Interests

Edoardo Campanella urges Europeans to prioritize the technology’s diffusion and usage over attempting cutting-edge innovation. What Europe’s AI Strategy Should Look Like

Shashi Tharoor recalls the 21-month period 50 years ago when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suspended the rule of law. Heeding the Lessons of India’s “Emergency”

David Amiel thinks the EU should forge new trade agreements with economies that are not aligned with the US or China. Europe’s Two-Front Trade War

Andrés Velasco asks why voters are flocking to right- and left-wing populists ahead of this year’s presidential election. Chile’s Unhappy Success

Antara Haldar considers what lies behind the unraveling of Poland’s Solidarity-era consensus. Forgetting What Democracy Is for

The Donald Trump administration has a point about some of the fundamental problems that must be fixed in the multilateral trading system ... Show more

The Resilience of World Trade

Desmond Lachman highlights the myriad ways Donald Trump is undermining markets’ faith in the US economy and the dollar. The End of America’s Exorbitant Privilege

At our #LCAW2025 event, Avinash D. Persaud, Special Adviser to the President of Inter-American Development Bank, argued that Europe needs two plans for climate ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

The US fiscal explosion could end up catalyzing a burst of inflation or growth-stifling Japanese-style financial repression ... Show more

Kenneth Rogoff on the dollar, for PS Say More

Can Europe shift from rule-maker to equal partner with developing countries in the fight against climate change? At our #LCAW2025 event ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

Bertrand Piccard shows how new technologies can revolutionize the blue economy and drive sustainable development. Turning Ocean Preservation Into an Economic Windfall

Ian Buruma explains why the US and Israeli air strikes did not spark an uprising against Iran’s sclerotic theocracy. The Great Bombing Delusion

Tidjane Thiam warns that the country’s democracy is being hollowed out by lawfare and procedural abuses. Côte d’Ivoire’s Make-or-Break Election

Martín Guzmán, Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi and Joseph E. Stiglitz offer a road map to replace a system that has left so many developing countries in penury. How to Solve the Development Crisis With Quality Finance

Laurence Tubiana explains why the continent's climate agenda must be fully integrated into its diplomacy. Europe Needs a Green Foreign Policy

At our #LCAW2025 event, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho of Instituto Igarapé argued that nature offers opportunities to build trust with the Global South – and advised ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim urges the bloc to begin laying the groundwork for an alliance with the continent at its upcoming summit. The BRICS+ Should Not Miss the Africa Opportunity

Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca explain how six months of self-destructive chaos have undercut potential growth, both now and in the long term. Trump Has Wrecked the US Economy

Yi Fuxian fears that the country’s policymakers have learned nothing from Japan’s experience. China’s Housing Crisis Is Worse Than It Seems

Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel thinks progressives have neglected the importance of delivering results that voters will feel in their own lives. Turning Populism's Tools Against Populism

Andrea Louise Campbell explains how the GOP’s tax and spending package rewards the wealthy at the expense of nearly everyone else. Plutocrats vs. Populists in Trump’s Washington

Vanessa Nakate warns the bloc that watering down the 2040 emissions-reduction target would undermine global action. The EU Must Stay True to Its Climate Commitments

María Fernanda Espinosa & Anita Bhatia make an economic case for remaking the global financial architecture with gender in mind. Financing for Development Must Account for Women

Ngaire Woods sees three reasons why elite institutions are vulnerable to official pressure – and not just tin the US. Universities in the Crosshairs

Yanis Varoufakis proposes a safe and efficient alternative that would be lucrative for users, but not for bankers. Defusing the Stablecoin Time Bomb

Nii Simmonds explains why real digital autonomy depends on international collaboration, not just domestic investment. The Quest for Tech and Manufacturing Sovereignty

Mohamed ElBaradei worries that the US and Israeli strikes on Iran have failed to heed the lessons of history. Nuclear Proliferation Cannot Be Bombed Away

Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey warn that experimenting with speculative technologies on the continent is a grave act of climate injustice. Africa Is Not a Solar Geoengineering Test Site

José Antonio Alonso imagines an updated, streamlined, and strengthened global system with the United Nations as its fulcrum. A New Vision for Development Cooperation

On day two of our #LCAW2025 event, Claire Bulger (European Climate Foundation) suggested that the backlash against climate action has been misdiagnosed: people ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani thinks the Islamic Republic must now choose between militarization and economic development. Which Iran Will We Get Now?

At our recent London Climate Action Week 2025 event, Adair Turner said what governments must do to get more sectors to the “tipping point” beyond which green ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

At our recent #LCAW2025 event, Asahi’s Preeti Srivastav explained that delivering on sustainability demands fundamental reform of corporate structures and ... Show more

London Climate Action Week 2025 - Project Syndicate

Nizar Haddad praises Saudi Arabia's commitment to halting desertification and rehabilitating its lands. The Middle-East Model for Land Restoration

Martijn Konings urges anti-populists to offer a more appealing vision of the expansive use of the public purse. Austerity Budgets Are a Gift to Populists