PRINCETON — So far this year, the world has marked the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, and its suppression, the centennial of the end of World War I and the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth.

PRINCETON — When countries get nervous about their security, they often insist that they need to reduce their dependence on foreign products, shorten supply chains and produce more goods domestically. But does protectionism really improve security?

PRINCETON — The European Union is currently facing challenges more severe than even the debt crisis that threatened to sink the eurozone earlier this decade.

PRINCETON — In The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes famously worried that, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”.Yet, even without prescriptive theories

Germany’s election result presents an odd paradox. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is unquestionably the strongest party, and a new government without it is unthinkable.

US President Donald Trump and his advisers’ fierce rhetoric on trade and immigration has led some to wonder if our current era of globalisation is now at risk.If it is, an even more pertinent question is whether the end will be accompanied by violence.Stock markets have become in

It has been 10 years since the financial crisis went international.Until July 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis seemed like it was strictly a problem for the United States.

With global leadership now in question, the G-20’s upcoming summit in Hamburg on July 7-8 could be the group’s tensest meeting ever.

The centrist Emmanuel Macron’s success in the first round of the French presidential election is likely to re-energise Europe.Unlike the other candidates, Macron does not just recognise the need for radical change to the European Union; he supports bringing it through Europe-wide