G7 versus the BRICS: taking stock in 12 figures
Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.
politics, economy and employment & labour
Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.
Francesco Crespi, Dario Guarascio, Serenella Caravella and Giacomo Cucignatto
A new approach is needed towards the photovoltaic industry in Europe.
The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its ‘reliable energy partner’.
A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.
For decades in the US, unions have atrophied while inequality has soared. The UAW strike may be a sign of changing times.
Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and jobs.
The feminist goal is abolition of prostitution—not acceptance of it and mere defence of ‘sex workers’.
Agnès Parent-Thirion and Viginta Ivaskaite-Tamosiune
When it comes to violence in the workplace, women and frontline workers are disproportionately the victims.
Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko
In the Ukraine war, mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies in Europe and the United States hint at growing conflict fatigue.
The ‘Vienna model’ has been distorted to embrace private investment but its real redefinition should be ecological.
If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.
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