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How a decline in trust can be a driver for new political leadership
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The traffic light turns green for German digitalization
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The ‘Wechselstimmung’ after Merkel
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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right
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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?
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A new narrative on climate change
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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?
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Climate litigation and civil society
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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?
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On the Chinese variety of capitalism
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On realizing we are not alone
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India’s rise as a digital superpower
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Winter is ending
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Judges break the unwritten rule of environmental agreements
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We need more downward mobility
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The G7 tax deal is all about American geo-economics
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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age
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The emergence of big tech mesh networks
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Hegemonic shift makes the European Super League inevitable
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Elon Musk – What does his popularity tell us about 21st century leadership?
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Building national character based on trauma
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The not-so-bright future after the pandemic
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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world
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The European deep transition strategy
The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.
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Harvest now, decrypt later
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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage
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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances
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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?
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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems
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Democratization of finance
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Technology on a leash
By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem
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Emerging markets face tough financial challenges
Will emerging markets' recovery be halted by increasing financial problems?
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Venetian, young and farming: three lessons from the new generation of Italian farmers on agri-food sustainability
Julia Rijssenbeek and Maya Turolla turn the spotlight on young farmers championing the transition to sustainable food systems.
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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