No Impunity for Insurrectionists
Susan Stokes | When aspiring dictators are not held accountable for attempting to overthrow democratic governments, they tend to return, emboldened.
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Putting Putin and Company in the Dock
Gordon Brown | "Putin’s crime of aggression can and must be tried sooner rather than later."
AI in the Common Interest
Gabriela Ramos and Marianna Mazzucato | Public policies and institutions should be designed to ensure that innovations are improving the world. As matters stand, many technologies are being deployed in a vacuum. The era of light-touch self-regulation must end.
The World Needs Many More Public Servants
Ngaire Woods | The private sector alone cannot make the massive investments required to achieve a carbon-neutral future and hold societies together. To enable governments to do so, policymakers must avoid austerity measures and recruit high-quality personnel.
Fifa's World Cup follies
ian Buruma | FIFA subscribes to the fantasy of a world without politics, where conflict is confined to the playing fields, but the choice to hold this year’s tournament in Qatar, a tiny oil-rich sheikdom with no footballing history, is itself political.
The hard-won benefits of soft diplomacy
Kishore Mahbubani | We could all benefit from learning a lesson or two from Javanese culture and heritage. Doing so would help soothe a troubled world, just as Jokowi did in Bali.
The birth of a new international order
Joschka Fischer | As the remnants of the twentieth century’s bipolar order finally disappear, a new global pentarchy is coming to the fore.
Protecting civilians against mines and other explosive ordnance in Ukraine: Geneva’s role
Stefano Toscano | The recent liberation of Kherson came as a stark reminder of the danger posed by landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosive ordnance (EO) littered across Ukraine.
The Silent Failure of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine
Daniel Warner | Why has the ICRC not been more vocal about grave human rights and international humanitarian law violations in Ukraine?
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Peace through pieces and the Grain Deal: Can functionalism help end the war in Ukraine?
Daniel Warner | “The historical task of our time is not to keep the nations peacefully apart but to bring them actively together through the continuous development of common activities and interests across them.”