Tackling Global Challenges Requires Stronger City Diplomacy
City diplomacy is on the rise. Its success will depend on our ability to harness it and curtail power-politics through an inclusive and multilateral...
Migrating to a New Decade
In an era of uncertainty, rapid technological advances, and a changing global balance of power, migration can be regarded as both a consequence and...
Georgia – in the Footsteps of the Ancient Silk Road
Georgia has always been a cross-roads of civilization. It was here that Europe’s oldest hominid fossils were discovered – ancient ancestors of Homo erectus...
Forgotten Brexit
In 1993 when the AIRE Centre was set up, the EU consisted of 12 countries. With the UK officially out of the EU as...
The UK’s Long Drift Away from the European Union
On the evening of 23 June 2016, having knocked on doors all day, I sensed with considerable despondency that the referendum would produce a...
Make NATO Great Again
At the dawn of 2020, as the U.S. and Iran pulled back from the brink of war, U.S. President Donald Trump called for expanding...
Lessons From ‘A Year of Tolerance’
2019 was the ‘Year of Tolerance’ in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). For us as Emiratis, it was a statement of how we embrace...
Making Policy for an Unstable World
A volatile global environment
The current volatility of the global environment can be observed with depressing regularity. The level of downside risks and the potential...
Narcisism and Polarization
In South America, we have come to name the concept of political polarization “la grieta” or “the rift.” In its own, unique ways, it...
How to Overcome Discontentment with Democracy
The existence of a social discontentment with representative democracy and its supposed failure in selecting legitimate and stable governments is undeniable. This phenomenon is...