... In 2012, prior to the London Olympics, Prime Minister David Cameron said London was “probably the most diverse city in the world.” Unlike many other metropolitan areas, where nonwhite populations form stark rings around a city, London at first glance may not seem geographically divided by...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Pull up to a gas pump anywhere in Saudi Arabia, and you can fill your tank for 45 cents a gallon. The price hasn’t changed since the King dropped it from 90 cents in 2006. It’s the King who sets the price because...

...Patrick Artus; Yanis Varoufakis; Ivan Štefanec; David Rinaldi; Lotta Olsson; Milena Hristova; Karel JaneČek; Gustau Alegret © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Europe is in the throes of a crisis of identity—perhaps the most profound since the creation of the European...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Paris—Just inside the front door of the sprawling mother ship of the Hermès empire on the Rue Saint-Honoré stands a young Chinese woman prepared to welcome the wealthy shoppers from Beijing and Shanghai who share...

...David Andelman; Guy Deutscher © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Fossil fuels and nuclear and renewable energy sources are the major players in the global market of energy supply and demand, each with its advantages and drawbacks. The addiction of society to fossil...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute There was a time, many years ago, when Cambodia was one of the primary rice bowls of Southeast Asia—able to feed its population and then some. By the time I arrived in Phnom Penh in February 1975 to cover the final...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute I spent an afternoon in Lisbon last year with Mário Soares, the longtime leader of Portugal and one of the great proponents of international socialism. In the offices of his foundation, he spends much of his time...

...David Omand © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Photo: Rasmus Andersson LONDON—In 1910, one of the last remaining bands of outlaws of America’s Wild West emerged from their hideout in the Sierra Ladrones Mountains in New Mexico and heisted a Wells Fargo...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Photo: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center In May 2008, when I took the helm of World Policy Journal , the world was in a very different place than it is today. In terms of leadership, George W. Bush had...

...David A. Andelman David A. Andelman is editor of World Policy Journal. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Robert Scoble PARIS—In March 1975, in what would turn out to be the final month of the war in Cambodia, I thought it might be a nice...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute Civilization marks its beginnings to the moment, more than 14,000 years ago, humans first gathered into settlements, leaving behind their days as nomadic hunters and gatherers. Known as sedentarization, this...

...David Eggers; Mamdouh al-Harthy; Hasan Hatrash; Haifaa al-Mansour © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute Dave Eggers Dave Eggers Mamdouh al-Harthy Mamdouh al-Harthy Hasan Hatrash Hasan Hatrash Haifaa al-Mansour Haifaa al-Mansour...

...David A. Andelman David A. Andelman is editor of World Policy Journal . © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute Joe Gratz Paris—As a New Year’s gift to those who elected him, France’s new president, François Hollande, mired in a seemingly intractable...

...David A. Andelman © 2011 World Policy Institute 2011 World Policy Institute P aris —A hot best seller in France is a curious little work that likely says more than the deepest political commentary about the state of mind in today's Europe, especially this nation that still...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute For the better part of three millennia, China and India have developed independently, intersecting only at the rarest of moments across a divide of some of the world’s most forbidding geography. Today, they rank as...

...David A. Andelman David A. Andelman is editor of World Policy Journal. © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute Photo: AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press Service There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when the Office of the...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Dawn broke over Bangkok at 6 o’clock on Wednesday morning, October 6, 1976—my 32nd birthday. It was already 77 degrees, en route to 91, balmy, though the air was already dripping with 81 percent humidity. The “cool...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Some 500 years before Christ, a noble Athenian leader, Cleisthenes, overthrew the tyrant Hippias, whose method of governance included executing any challengers to his rule. In his place, the athenians instituted a...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Meehyun Nam-Thompson Ai Weiwei—artist, sculptor, and the brains behind the Bird’s Nest, the signature venue of the Beijing Olympics—was arrested by authorities two years after the final cheers of the XXIX...