The World
I outlined three enormous challenges for the Digital Age: rising inequality, massive environmental degradation, and the risks arising from major geopolitical change. These daunting challenges could overload our political institutions and provoke a devastating conflict. Such has been the pattern of the past. Surely the prime task of our age is to re
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The Violent Crackup of the Post-WWII International Order
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Omar Ismail • How will Covid change the world? A review of history.
Is there a direction to history? Can we speak of long-term change or only of repeating cycles of history? Is there long-term progress? I will suggest that, yes, there is an arrow of history. In each age, human beings have become more aware of the wider world. Technological advances—especially in transport and communications—and demographic changes
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