“Everybody is saying, ‘Oh, why isn't China being so meek and so docile anymore? Why is it showing his teeth?’ The simple answer is that, it is what...
Dealing with a Dragon
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The Ripple Effect
Jared Genser’s client list reads like a Who’s Who of democratic aspiration: Václav Havel, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Liu Xiaobo, and Anwar Ibrahim...
As the World Turns
Jan Eliasson—Swedish and global diplomat, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, accomplished conflict mediator—considers himself a...
Our Wildlife, Our Selves
More than two decades ago, in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka made a connection that most of the world is only...
Cooperation, Competition, or Confrontation
Coping with a Dangerous World “I think that this is a period of increasing danger.” “You can draw a direct line from the unenforced red line...
Writing on the Wall: Bahia Shehab
Historian. Street artist. Professor of graphic design. Bahia Shehab lives the future she believes in for her students: multi-disciplinarity. “I...
Ugly, Uglier, Ugliest: Migration at a Time of Covid
“When I was in Lesbos, there were over 9,000, 10,000 people in the streets with little food, little water, and nothing else… literally lines of...
Reshuffling the Global Deck
“We have entered a world which we've not experienced for a long time … The most populous nation in the world is acquiring the economic and military...
Bearing Witness
Earlier this month, the migrants and refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos were again homeless after fires, probably set out of desperation,...