Project Syndicate

By Jorge G. Castañeda YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reached the beginning of the end.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – India looks set to end a tumultuous year on a celebratory note, marking both 75 years of independence and the start of its G20 presidency.

By Nick Butler LONDON – Many have dismissed last month’s COP27 climate conference as a failure, owing to the lack of progress on pledges made at the COP26 summit last year, and to the absence of clear commitments to phase out fossil fuels.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Few will miss 2022, a year defined by a lingering pandemic, advancing climate change, galloping inflation, slowing economic growth, and, more than anything else, the outbreak of a costly war in Europe and concerns that violent conflict could soon erupt in Asia.

By Vera Songwe, Nicholas Stern, and Amar Bhattacharya LONDON – The dust has now settled after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, but there are still many unanswered questions about how to finance emissions reductions and adaptation.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The world heaved a sigh of relief this month when the feared “red wave” of Republican victories in the US midterms failed to materialize.

By Bill Emmott LONDON – Companies have long had to manage “key person risk,” even taking out insurance against the possibility of losing top executives through death, illness, or injury.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – We are witnessing an unprecedented confluence of major and minor crises.

LONDON – The World Bank is on the cusp of a major transformation.

By Jeremy Daum and Moritz Rudolf NEW HAVEN – A recent report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders about the existence of “secret Chinese police stations” in cities around the world, including New York, has sparked investigations in several European countries and attracted the attention of the FBI.

By Raghuram G. Rajan CHICAGO – The deliberations at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) suggest that while policymakers realize the urgency of combating climate change, they are unlikely to reach a comprehensive collective agreement to address it.

By Carl Bildt  COPENHAGEN – It took US President Joe Biden’s administration quite a while to produce its National Security Strategy, which it finally released in October.

By  Naoko Ishii and Joshua Omonuk TOKYO – Decades of progress on reducing food insecurity are being reversed.

By Ilona Szabó RIO DE JANEIRO – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro sends a powerful message to the rest of the world.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Rishi Sunak’s ascent to the pinnacle of British politics has sparked celebrations across India.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – In its new national security strategy, US President Joe Biden’s administration recognizes that Russia and China each present a different kind of challenge.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva   NEW YORK – Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is again facing the specter of a nuclear confrontation.

By Christopher Pissarides, Fadi Farra, and Amira Bensebaa LONDON – The digital age has taught businesses to see people as individuals rather than just as members of certain demographic cohorts.

By Yu Yongding BEIJING – When China’s GDP growth is below target, successive governments have relied on the same tool: government spending on infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy.

By  Reza Aslan RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA – The nationwide protests in Iran over women’s rights and abuses by the religious morality police have once again shone a light on the country’s ruling clerical class and the seemingly limitless powers of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.