The Year Ahead 2025

The world’s diplomatic, political, and economic divisions continue to harden – both between countries and within them. Whereas 2022 and 2023 featured a war of attrition in Ukraine, we have since entered a broader world of attrition, with zero-sum conflicts multiplying across the board.

Guernica Is Always with Us

Annie Cohen-Solal
Will Stability Rise from the Middle East Rubble?

Dennis Ross
When Russia Fights the Wrong Enemy

S.C.M. Paine
Will the Guardrails of US Democracy Hold?

Erwin Chemerinsky
ASEAN’s Second Renaissance Is Now

Anwar Ibrahim
AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy

Sergei Guriev
The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

Daron Acemoglu
We Need Energy for AI, and AI for Energy

Eric Schmidt
Our AI Near-Future

Charles Ferguson
Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?

Kenneth Rogoff
A Triple Fiscal Crisis Is Jeopardizing Climate Action

Vera Songwe , Guido Schmidt-Traub
China’s Economy Has Not Peaked

Nancy Qian
An Economic Requiem for the Biden Administration

Barry Eichengreen
Protecting Cultural Heritage in Wartime

Karel Komárek
The Uphill Battle Against Poverty

Hippolyte Fofack , Sakiko Fukuda-Parr , Jayati Ghosh , Indermit Gill , Justin Yifu Lin

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Reinventing Europe

Oct 07, 2026

Despite boasting world-leading universities and research institutions, robust trade relationships, a strong industrial base, and a well-established rule of law, Europe has failed to leverage its advantages in a way that would unlock its full economic potential.

At the same time, it appears to be punching below its weight internationally, instead of providing the leadership the world so desperately needs to maintain progress toward broadly shared goals.

The Year Ahead 2025

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Oct 07, 2026