Our cities need to go on a resource diet

Dec 06, 2016 08:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Cities are the epicentres of human activity. They cover less than 2% of the earths land surface but generate about 70% of GDP and house more than half the human population. The importance of cities is only going to...

Markets are muted after Italy referendum but instability simmers under the surface

Dec 06, 2016 07:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

After staking his career on the promise that he would either change Italy or change jobs, Matteo Renzi has resigned as prime minister. With 60% of the popular vote going against his political reforms in a referendum that...

Italy's 'no' vote lights another fire under the European Union

Dec 06, 2016 07:37 am UTC| Insights & Views

How to interpret the outcome of the Italian referendum? Matteo Renzis government is clearly the loser and the prime minister announced his widely expected resignation as soon as the result was in. The proposed...

Asia is in the grip of a transnational crime crisis – but governments look away

Dec 06, 2016 07:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

The immense demand for methamphetamine (ice), ecstasy and new psychoactive substances among the wealthy urban residents of East Asia and beyond has revitalised organised crime in the region. The scale of recent drug...

Global Geopolitics Series

The Italian referendum: No Trump nor Brexit

Dec 06, 2016 07:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The Italians have delivered an overwhelming defeat to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Initial tallies of Dec. 4s referendum show a vote of just under 60 percent rejecting Renzis constitutional reform package, with a little...

US Election Series

A history of the American anti-feminism behind Clinton's defeat

Dec 06, 2016 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The victory of Donald J Trump in the November 2016 US presidential election came as a particular shock to those who had believed that the American nation was ready and willing to elect its first female president. Evidence...

US Election Series

Neoliberalism's failure means we need a new narrative to guide global economy

Dec 06, 2016 06:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Neoliberalism, the dominant narrative guiding Western democracies and their economies for almost 70 years, is crumbling all around us. It was set up to protect our freedoms. But neoliberalisms excesses and failures ...