The Decade of Living Dangerously
Kevin Rudd became President and CEO of the Asia Society in January 2021 and has been president of the Asia Society Policy Institute since January 2015. He served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Foreign Minister from 2010 to 2012, before returning as Prime Minister in 2013. This is an […]
Asia in the Roaring Twenties
Parag Khanna is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. His latest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century. This essay draws from two articles written for Noēma and a more recent essay published in The National Interest. You may follow […]
Can Brexit Britain Still Be A Global Player?
David Landsman is a former British Ambassador and senior corporate executive. He now is now Chairman of Cerebra Global Strategy (www.cgstrategy.org). You may follow him on Twitter @David_Landsman. DURING the 2016 referendum campaign, one of the arguments against what has become known as “Brexit” was that, outside the European Union, the United Kingdom would lose […]
From the Storm to More Than A Calm
George Friedman is Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures and a New York Times bestselling author. This essay is an updated version from part of his latest book, The Storm Before the Calm: America’s Discord, The Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond (2020). You may follow him on Twitter @George_Friedman. THE storm […]
Looking Back to Look Forward
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and author of ten books, most recently, Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism (2018), a New York Times bestseller. You may follow him on Twitter @ianbremmer. THE Donald Trump era will go down as the most significant domestic stress test that the United States […]