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Gideon Rachman (FT): Can liberal democracy win in the 21st century?

October 23, 2025 • by David Bach, Felix Zeltner in Geopolitics • 2 min read • Podcast available

Gideon Rachman on Trump, China, and Europe’s resilience – and why liberal democracy, though under pressure, still has a future....

At the World Economic Forum’s Dubai meetings: Five ideas for a fractured world

October 17, 2025 • by David Bach, Simon J. Evenett, Stéphane J. G. Girod, Öykü Işık, Vanina Farber in Geopolitics • 8 min read

Leaders at the WEF’s Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity focused less on rivalry and more on action. ...

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The US has turned its back on net zero, but all is not lost

September 30, 2025 • by Jerry Davis in Geopolitics • 8 min read

The success of the biggest American companies and pension funds depends on international markets. Perhaps this can give the world the leverage it needs to keep the US on board for the...

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How to survive as political battles rage over net zero

September 24, 2025 • by Arturo Bris in Geopolitics • 8 min read

Business leaders must master the art of building strategies that take account of partisan divides over net-zero goals while progressing the interests of their company and society....

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The new limits of growth

September 1, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Geopolitics • 9 min read

In the final article of our series, we explore how businesses face hard planetary and geopolitical limits that make the “business as usual” growth model untenable as climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and...

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What open-source models can teach us about global trade

August 26, 2025 • by Richard Baldwin, Michael Yaziji in Geopolitics • 11 min read

The rules-based order that underpinned globalization is lurching from an open-source to a closed-source model. But even without the participation of the US, an ‘open hybrid’ system will ensure stability in the...