Project Syndicate

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is just weeks away.

By Simon Zadek GENEVA – The negotiators and activists preparing to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai are grimly aware that there is no realistic chance of limiting global warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

By Richard Haass NEW YORK – Summits are by definition occasions of high politics and drama, so it comes as little surprise that the November 15 meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping generated immense global interest.

By  Ari Juels and Eswar Prasad NEW YORK/ITHACA – The vertiginous fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX who was recently convicted of fraud and money laundering in New York, has cast a harsh light on a largely unregulated market.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – India’s tortuous stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza offers a fascinating illustration of the recent evolution of the country’s foreign policy.

ISTANBUL – In 2007, I found myself in a car with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and then-Israeli President Shimon Peres en route to Turkey’s Grand National Assembly.

By Hippolyte Fofack CAIRO – Since the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum in July, Niger, a landlocked West African state, has fallen into dire straits.

By Zhang Jun SHANGHAI – It has become increasingly clear in recent years that China has begun to shift away from its export-driven economic-development model to an “internal circulation” strategy that emphasizes expansion of domestic demand.

By Saber Hossain Chowdhury and Hassan Damluji DHAKA/LONDON – The world is barreling down a perilous path.

GENEVA – The overuse of antibiotics is now widely recognized as one of the main factors contributing to antimicrobial resistance – often called the “silent pandemic.”

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – The Kremlin rarely surprises me.

By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – Modern societies have had to deal with exorbitant market power for more than a century.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Following the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of a major conflict, and the rest of the world continues to fracture along new economic and geopolitical lines.

By Carl Bildt .ABU DHABI – Gaza is now at risk of sinking into a new hell.

By Barak Barfi WASHINGTON, DC – The multi-pronged operation that Hamas launched against Israel one day after the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War is eerily similar to that conflict.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TOLEDO – Sooner or later, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s destructive political magic, which has kept him in power for 15 years, was bound to usher in a major tragedy.

By Immaculate Atuhamize and Bertrand Badré KAMPALA/PARIS – The Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, held this past June, rightly focused on promoting an inclusive climate action plan that leaves no one behind.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there is little agreement on how it should be characterized.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepped out of his armored train at a railway station in the eastern Russian town of Khasan for his recent meeting with President Vladimir Putin, I could not help but think of the satirical 2017 film The Death of Stalin.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – We are living through eventful – one might even say “wild” – times, with history being made at a fast and furious pace.