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  1. The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) is an institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences. Its goal is to support the free exchange of ideas and thus to help overcome dividing lines and mechanisms of exclusion within and between our societies. Institut for Human Sciences

  2. Régis Immongault is a former minister of the economy of Gabon.

  3. Ilze Indriksone is Latvia’s Minister of Economics.

  4. Ekhosuehi Iyahen is Secretary-General of the Insurance Development Forum.

  5. Fred C. Ikle

    Fred C. Ikle

    Writing for PS since 1996
    1 Commentary

    Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington.

  6. Otmar Issing

    Otmar Issing

    Writing for PS since 2001
    16 Commentaries

    Otmar Issing, former chief economist and member of the board of the European Central Bank, is Honorary President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

  7. Michael Ignatieff

    Michael Ignatieff

    Writing for PS since 2001
    8 Commentaries

    Michael Ignatieff, Professor of History and Rector Emeritus of Central European University in Vienna, is a former Canadian politician and author of On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021) and Isaiah Berlin: A Life (Pushkin Press, 2023).

  8. Alejandro Izquierdo

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Research economist at the InterAmerican Development Bank

  9. Toomas H. Ilves

    Toomas H. Ilves

    Writing for PS since 2004
    2 Commentaries

    Toomas Hendrik Ilves is President of Estonia.

  10. Saad E. Ibrahim

    Saad E. Ibrahim

    Writing for PS since 2004
    9 Commentaries

    Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo and Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Dr. Ibrahim gained global attention after he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment at a trial Amnesty International described as politically motivated to punish him for his human rights activism. His conviction was overturned in 2003.

  11. James W. Ironside

    Writing for PS since 2005
    1 Commentary

    James W. Ironside is Professor of Medicine, National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

  12. Ivan Ivanov

    Writing for PS since 2006
    1 Commentary

    Ivan Ivanov is the Executive Director of the European Roma Information Office.

  13. John P. Ioannidis

    John P. Ioannidis

    Writing for PS since 2006
    1 Commentary

    John P.A. Ioannidis is Professor and Chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece and adjunct Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, USA.

  14. Peter Inge

    Peter Inge

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    Field Marshall Sir Peter Inge was Britain's Chief of Staff 1992-1994.

  15. Henrik Isakson

    Henrik Isakson

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    Henry Isakson is a Senior Advisor to the Swedish Board of Trade.

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

    Stephen S. Roach

    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

    explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

    urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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