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Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
Niall Ferguson’s retrospective of 2009
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Global Dashboard’s books of the year
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Darth Merkel versus the climate ewoks
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Flash Gordon after all
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Farewell, Detroit
H/t Polymeme
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What’s happening in Poznan
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Rahm Emanuel on moments of crisis
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Follow the money
Not a lot of comment needed on this one, really: Via Duncan Green.
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Never mind the bailout details – what were they eating?
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What to do about Guantanamo
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Food prices: what next?
Speech by Alex Evans at the Tomorrow Network (25 November 2008)
Next year’s battle of the summits
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New National Intelligence Council report on global trends to 2025
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