Commentaries

Commentaries

Discussion with AI: What Would It Take to Achieve World Peace, Environmental Sustainability, and Shared Prosperity?

A blueprint, drawn from a long-form discussion, jointly authored by Jan-Peter Olters and Claude (Anthropic).Abstract. What would it take to achie

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Peace is not an Inheritance: 8 May and the Crisis of International Order

Eighty-one years ago today, at 11.01pm Central European Time, the Second World War in Europe came to an end. More than 10 million members of the Alli

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800 Years of Lübeck’s Reichsfreiheit: Free Trade, Prosperity, and Their Current Enemies

The foundations of the global trading system on which prosperity depends are under attack. In an era of military conflict, disrupted shipping routes,

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How Not to Build a Tariff Regime—Presidential Overreach, Congressional Abdication

It may prove the current US administration’s emperor’s-new-clothes moment. On 20 February 2026, the US Supreme Court struck down the central

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