Our World in 2018
Leading minds reflect on the state of our societies, and examine the challenges that lie ahead. An edition dedicated to generating ideas that will help form a new vision for our world.
Leading minds reflect on the state of our societies, and examine the challenges that lie ahead. An edition dedicated to generating ideas that will help form a new vision for our world.
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INDEX
120 Will the Center Hold? By Lawrence Summers
122 Stealing the Populists’ Clothes R
124 The Venal Roots of Political Turmoil By Janine R. Wedel
126 The New Democratic Wave By Kishore Mahbubani
128 Why We Need Political Parties By Moisés Naím
130 Roadmap to a New Convergence By Francisco Jaime Quesado
131 The time beckons By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
8 GLOBAL VS. LOCAL WORLDS
134 A New Balance for the Global Age By Gordon Brown
138 East Asia’s Rising Star By Sri Mulyani Indrawati
140 Asia’s Cities Against North Korea By Yuriko Koike
142 The Trumping of Asia By Kevin Rudd
144 Xi Unbound? By Minxin Pei
146 How to Break Korea’s Barriers to Social Mobility
By Ha-Joon Chang
148 Latin America’s Annus Mediocris By Jorge Castañeda
150 Venezuela’s Struggle for Freedom By María Corina Machado
152 We Dream of Living in a Free Venezuela By Lilian Tintori
154 The Only True Strategy for Russia By Mikhail Khodorkovsky
156 In Turkey, Democracy Is in Peril By Elif Shafak
158 Africa, the Business Deal of the Century By Célestin Monga
160 In Syria, the World’s Democracies Failed Us By Fadi Azzam
10 2018 | OUR WORLD