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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

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