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  1. Abdulla Naseer is Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change, and Technology for the Maldives.

  2. Irene Norstedt is Director of the People Directorate in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission.

  3. Jennifer Nuzzo is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

  4. Masashi Nishihara

    Masashi Nishihara

    Writing for PS since 1997
    2 Commentaries

    Director, National Defense Academy, Tokyo.

  5. Aryeh Neier

    Aryeh Neier

    Writing for PS since 1999
    63 Commentaries

    Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is author of The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Princeton University Press, 2012).

  6. Boris Nemtsov

    Boris Nemtsov

    Writing for PS since 2000
    2 Commentaries

    Boris Nemtsov was Russia's first deputy prime minister and a prominent opposition leader.

  7. Vyacheslav Nikonov

    Vyacheslav Nikonov

    Writing for PS since 2000
    4 Commentaries

    Vyacheslav Nikonov, one of Russia's leading political scientists, is President of the Politika Foundation, Moscow. He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov.

  8. Dorothy Nelkin

    Dorothy Nelkin

    Writing for PS since 2001
    2 Commentaries

    Professor of Sociology, NYU.

  9. Pierre Nora

    Pierre Nora

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Director of studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and a member of the Académie Française.

  10. M. I. Nadiri

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    M. Ishaq Nadiri, who participated in the talks that created Afghanistan's interim government, is Professor of Economics at NYU and an economic advisor to Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader.

  11. Julian Nida-Rümelin

    Julian Nida-Rümelin

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Germany's Minister for Cultural Affairs and Media. Professor of Philosophy at Göttingen University.

  12. Ethan A. Nadelmann

    Ethan A. Nadelmann

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    The founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the global war on drugs and author of Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of US Criminal Law Enforcement.

  13. Thomas Nagel

    Thomas Nagel

    Writing for PS since 2002
    2 Commentaries

    Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU.

  14. Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Writing for PS since 2002
    249 Commentaries

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a professor at Harvard University and a former US assistant secretary of defense, is the author, most recently, of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020).

  15. Hamid Narjisse

    Writing for PS since 2003
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Rangeland Ecology at Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II in Rabat, Morocco.

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    The New World Disorder

    Richard Haass highlights the growing threat to international stability and calls for effective cooperation.
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    Latin America’s Growth Conundrum

    Arminio Fraga, et al.

    Since 1960, only a few countries in Latin America have narrowed the gap between their per capita income and that of the United States, while most of the region has lagged far behind. Making up for lost ground will require a coordinated effort, involving both technocratic tinkering and bold political leadership.

    explain what it will take finally to achieve economic convergence with advanced economies.
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    We Need to Talk About Bank Supervision

    Howard Davies thinks the renewed debate over commercial bank capital requirements largely misses the point.
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    The New Anatomy of Britain

    Robert Skidelsky laments the decline of UK institutions and the increasingly limited scope for meaningful action.
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    Financing Our Survival

    Vera Songwe

    Between now and the end of this decade, climate-related investments need to increase by orders of magnitude to keep the world on track toward achieving even more ambitious targets by mid-century. Fortunately, if done right, such investments could usher in an entirely new and better economy.

    explains what it will take to mobilize capital for the net-zero transition worldwide.
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    Whither the G20?

    Takatoshi Ito sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.
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    Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals

    Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource extraction to build green industry.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

    Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing policy in line with the bloc’s emissions-reduction plan.
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.

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