Influence and networks

"I'm off to the most radical country in the Western world," I told my colleagues, "the Vatican." There was a time when NGO radicalism would have made our collective attendance at a Vatican meeting appear like a strange moment of conservatism. Now it seems like one of...

Were it not for the amusing stunts mocking the G7 leaders, the world might not even know the G7 was happening. (What they most fear, I reckon, is that people stop mocking them. Imagine the indignity!) We're witnessing not just the decline of the old powers but the...