Commentaries

Commentaries

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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2026: Year One of a Post-Idealist Order?

If 2025 was the ‘hinge year’, as argued in our Year-in-Review commentary, we contend that 2026 may be the first year to cease being anchored in t

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Year in Review: Have Geopolitical Realignments Made 2025 the ‘Year of Institutions’?

.By end-2025, eight decades of transatlantic institutional history stood as proudly as the slightly older East Wing of the White House—both con

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Finance, Fissures, and the Future of Development

It was a geopolitical balancing act on the tightrope of multilateral development architecture and against the headwinds of global compassion fatigue.

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