America’s New Three-Body Problem
Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Faculty Fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also Founder and Managing Director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. He is the author of 16 books, including his most recent, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (2021). An earlier version of this essay appeared as a chapter in Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (eds.), COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation. (2020).You may follow him on Twitter @nfergus.
The Triangle As Metaphor
Andrey Sushentsov is Director of the Institute for International Studies as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied International Analysis at MGIMO University in Moscow. He is also Program Director of the Valdai Discussion Club. You may follow him on Twitter @AA_Sushentsov.
Three Rivalries
Thierry de Montbrial is a member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Founder and Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), and Founder and Chairman of the World Policy Conference. A French language version of this essay appeared in the March 2021 edition of Revue Défense nationale. You may follow him via his website: www. thierrydemontbrial.com.
The Origins of COVID-19 and the Urgent Case for U.S.-Sino Cooperation
Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and Chair of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Sachs has been advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General António Guterres. You may follow him on Twitter @JeffDSachs.
China and Digital Payments
Michael Greenwald is a Director at Tiedemann Advisors, a private investment management firm. He formerly held senior roles in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, served as Deputy Executive Director of The Trilateral Commission, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Geonomics Center. You may follow him on Twitter @greenwald00.
Serbian Cultural Identity
Milo Lompar is a Professor in the Department of Serbian Literature at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade. This essay is based on a lecture delivered in November 2019 at Israel’s Ono Academic College on the occasion of the launch of its Studies of Serbian Language, Culture, and History of Serbian Jewry program.
The Balkans and Europe
Miodrag Lekić is Founder and President of DEMOS, a liberal-conservative political party in Montenegro and member of the Parliament of Montenegro where he chairs the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants. He formerly served as Foreign Minister of Montenegro, Lecturer in Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli University, and his country’s ambassador to Italy.
Sustainable Growth in the Western Balkans?
Eldin Mehić is Deputy Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Theory and Policy of the School of Economics and Business at the University of Sarajevo.
Stuck in the EU’s Eternal Waiting Room
Walter Kemp is Director of the Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.