The EU’s global normative influence
The EU is proving to have a capacity for global influence on normative issues. Its internal regulations are in some cases being adopted beyond its borders.
Global Spectator
The geopolitics of sexual harassment
The sexual harassment of women has made its way onto the global agenda. What has started in the US could start to have geopolitical ramifications.
Britain: devoid of a project
Perhaps the lack of vision regarding the future will end up generating more doubts among Britain's citizens about Brexit.
Disinformation campaigns: the weakness caused by mistrust
The debate about post-truth, disinformation, fake news and manipulation favours the manipulators. Mistrust cannot simply be offset by more information.
Editing the genome requires global governance
Regulating and controlling the editing of the human genome (CRISPR-Cas9 system) must also form part of global governance.
The EU: (almost) everybody wants to be in everything
The historic step that has just been taken in defence suggests that the EU prefers to close ranks when advancing onto new ground.
100 years after the Russian Revolution: central planning with big data?
One hundred years down the line, the dystopia of central planning and total control cannot be written off as extinct. Will they be reborn under big data?
European solidarity for Catalonia
The EU has supported the Spanish government in its dispute with the separatists of Catalonia. It has done so in defence of its own interests.
«America First» undermines the West
«America First» puts the US global leadership in jeopardy and also undermines the position of a West that is deprived of significance without a leader.
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