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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
43 commentaries
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Antara Haldar, Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

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  1. How Aristotle Can Save Us
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    How Aristotle Can Save Us

    Mar 31, 2025 Antara Haldar touts a conception of society in which politics and education cultivate the virtue of its members.

  2. Why Global Governance Is Failing
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    Why Global Governance Is Failing

    Mar 12, 2025 Antara Haldar argues that we need to look beyond the nation-state to develop a more “planetary” mode of thinking.

  3. What Is MAGAnomics?
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    What Is MAGAnomics?

    Feb 10, 2025 Antara Haldar tries to make sense of the new US administration's internally contradictory economic-policy program.

  4. COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten
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    COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten

    Dec 30, 2024 Antara Haldar laments the world's return to business as usual without having absorbed anything essential from the pandemic.

  5. Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law
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    Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law

    Dec 11, 2024 Antara Haldar considers whether a defining component of American democracy has been lost for good.

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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

     examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.
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    Philanthropy in an Era of Declining Development Aid

    William Moore urges practitioners and policymakers to focus on already proven, scalable solutions.
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    South Africa’s Wrestling Match With Trump

    Adekeye Adebajo considers whether the current G20 president can still advance its agenda in the face of US obstruction.
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    How Aristotle Can Save Us

    Antara Haldar touts a conception of society in which politics and education cultivate the virtue of its members.
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    Trump vs. Europe

    Zaki Laïdi

    Donald Trump has left no doubt that he wants to build an authoritarian, illiberal world order based on traditional spheres of influence and agreements with other illiberal leaders. The only role that the European Union plays in his script is an obstacle that must be pushed aside.

     warns that the European Union has no place in Donald Trump’s illiberal worldview.

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