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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.
100 WEF CEOs argue per capita convergence ahead of G8
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Public diplomacy – or tomorrow’s diplomacy?
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Gordon’s growing international credibility
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“I know they could kill me, but the cost of filling my tank in the US is just too much”
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Respecting the Irish ‘no’
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China is an island
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America’s corn crunch
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Bid now!
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Why the world trade system’s guns are pointing the wrong way
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On the benefits of failure
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs] If you do nothing else this week, watch this - JK Rowling's superb commencement address to Harvard's...
A vote of confidence in Ban Ki-moon
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Why you should have a digital camera to hand at all times
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The oil-dollar feedback loop
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Extreme weather trashes US midwest corn crop
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Sarkozy latest convert to per capita convergence in climate policy?
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Summit sleights of hand on oil and climate
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