 In September 2024, the Draghi report on EU competitiveness was published to much acclaim. This blog suggests that acclaim for the diagnosis was deserved. But not for the policy prescriptions.
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 The world today is now typically referred to as ‘plurilateral’. This blog looks at what the term implies, the alternatives and the prospects
 It has become fashionable in recent years for mainstream economists and political scientists to write off liberalism as an approach to politics whose time is over. This blog examines this view in order to assess whether liberalism remains relevant and has a future
 It is now commonplace to depict the global scene as ‘multipolar’. This blog looks at the prospects for a more universalist world where common values can be supported and enforced at the global level
 In our information economy we have become used to the direct delivery of whatever we want. In politics, delivery remains slow and indirect. The contrast is one factor feeding an anti-democratic populism that promises immediate results. Overcoming the difference will require governments to make some fundamental reforms
 Under Trump the USA is no longer the so-called ‘beacon of the democratic world’. Instead, it is becoming the symbol of a new type of authoritarianism. This blog looks at the way the USA is changing
 This blog looks at hypothetical ways out of the current state of conflict in Gaza between Israel and Palestinians
 Ukraine and Russia are struggling to find a basis for a peaceful settlement. This blog looks at whether an undertaking by Ukraine to change its constitution could play a part in any settlement
 This blog argues that modern, culturally diverse democracies should actively encourage intercultural relationships. They should not sit back, content with self-characterisation as ‘multicultural’, while allowing the prejudices of right-wing politicians to dominate public debate about culture by proxy in the form of anti-immigration rhetoric
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