Global governance

A plan for a World Trade Organization sectoral agreement on semiconductors

Trade weaponisation is straining WTO rules, but a semiconductor pact could show how to manage security risks

Petros C. Mavroidis and Mario R. Palacios

China’s influence in the United Nations: Words and deeds

Alicia García-Herrero, Théo Storella and Pauline Weil

Buyer beware: a taxonomy of the risks of international carbon credits

As the EU reintegrates international carbon credits into its climate framework, understanding the associated risks is essential

Maximilian Fuchs, Thomas Mramor and Georg Zachmann

AI, demographics and China

How young economists see the big challenges of our times

Rebecca Christie, Maria Catarina Louro, Théo Storella and Tillman Schenk

The China‑Russia asymmetric partnership: Implications for Europe

Alicia García-Herrero and Elina Ribakova

Reassessing China's role in the Middle East

A complex region, persistent assumptions and the limits of Beijing's ambitions

Jonathan Fulton, Alicia García-Herrero and Yuyun Zhan

A plan to revitalise the World Trade Organization

Saving the WTO will require EU-led alliances, better subsidy disciplines and new plurilateral routes, even if some initiatives sit outside the WTO

Ignacio García Bercero

Ragnar Nurkse and the Making of the Bretton Woods Paradigm

An intellectual biography and analysis of how a little-known Estonian economist developed the authoritative account of the Bretton Woods paradigm

Ivo Maes and Ilaria Pasotti

How can Europe lead a ‘coalition of the middle powers’?

Niclas Poitiers

The United States has permanently lost its moral authority

Jean Pisani-Ferry

The World After Trump

George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry