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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.
The fall of LTCM redux
Amidst the general hedge fund-collapsery all around us, now's the time to refresh your memory about the unhappy case of Long Term Capital Management, which...
The Situation Room dismantled
Chances are good that last time you found yourself channel-surfing in the US, you will have happened across a rather fatuous news show called The Situation...
Dowden on Kenya
Following on from my post last week on Kenya's bolt from the blue, which quoted Richard Dowden extensively, here's a link to an excellent piece he had in...
Japan’s G8
This year's G8 summit is brought to you by Japan, who as David Pilling reports have decided to hold the event in a uniquely Japanese-sounding venue: the...
Europe: “defensive, introspective, decadent, tired”
Now that the European Constitution Treaty has been agreed, all the usual froth about Europe's place in the world can be expected to redouble. Groan. So it...
Martin Wolf: prospects for civilisation in a zero sum economy
Martin Wolf opines in his blog that his last column of the year is possibly also his most important of the year. He's right. His subject: prospects for...
How resilience works
I've been reading the Harvard Business Review's excellent book on resilience. One of the best articles in it is How Resilience Works by HBR senior editor...
Solvency crunch may make 1929 look like “walk in park”
So says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph, so it must be true. He writes: "As the credit paralysis stretches through its fifth month, a chorus of...
Festive cheer from the IEA
No ho-ho-hos from the International Energy Agency this Christmas. They chose December 27th, of all days, to announce that, er, their reserves data is - how to...
Hurrah for ethanol (not)
Hal Weitzman is with Barack Obama in Iowa. Barack Obama loves ethanol. When the last presidential caucus was held in 2004, Iowa produced 860m gallons of...
Kenya’s bolt from the blue
With the death count now well into the hundreds, and the number of Internally Displaced People from the Rift Valley alone placed at 70,000 by the Kenyan Red...
Climate Change: The State of the Debate
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven, written for the London Accord (December 2007).
Looking ahead: foreign policy reform in 2008
The last working day before Christmas. Time to brave the streets and get those last few presents? Bah! Here at Global Dashboard we're made of sterner...
US EUCOM: the real scarce resources will be food and water, not oil and gas
While we're on the subject of food, two interesting things to report from the Brussels conference that I mentioned a couple of posts ago: First, it looks as...
Food security: presentation to PM’s Strategy Unit
As promised a few weeks back, here's the presentation on rising food prices that I gave the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit a couple of weeks ago. The...
Can Poland deliver?
I spoke at a conference organised by the Institute for Environmental Security in Brussels earlier this week. (Here's the speech I gave, which updates the...
Climate Change: the State of the Debate
David and I are publishing a report today entitled "Climate Change: the State of the Debate". It’s essentially intended to catalyse a deeper discussion about...
Santa Claus is Chinese
This was the arresting discovery made last year by Lester Brown at the Earth Policy Institute. How could he tell? I know Santa Claus is Chinese because each...
Sir Richard Mottram on global risks
From yesterday's Observer: Britian's outgoing intelligence chief believes there is a danger of exaggerating the threat posed by al-Qaeda at the expense of...
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