Read – and keep – this and all of the 24 commentaries by world leaders and top thinkers featured in Fatal Attraction – The Year Ahead, 2017.
Jan 17, 2017 Margaret MacMillan argues that the new populism has clarified the link between nationalism and authoritarianism.
Jan 18, 2017 Dominic Barton explains what business executives need to do to ensure that capitalism benefits everyone.
Jan 18, 2017 Jim O'Neill corrects false assumptions in the conventional wisdom, and tells investors what to look for in 2017.
Jan 19, 2017 Min Zhu advises countries that are trying to diversify their economies to look at past success stories.
Jan 19, 2017 Lucrezia Reichlin outlines reforms to ensure central-bank independence in the long term, and more flexibility today.
Jan 20, 2017 Bernard Haykel reviews the Kingdom's plans to ween itself off of oil, and finds it lacking on the political front.
Jan 20, 2017 Larry Diamond & Hesham Sallam predict that state-led reforms will not be enough to alleviate public discontent in the region.
Jan 23, 2017 Tarek Osman says the Middle East's young people can learn from religious history to move their region forward.
Jan 23, 2017 Minxin Pei says the Chinese president has domestic adversaries who should not be written off just yet.
Jan 24, 2017 Abdullah Gül says the spillover effects of conflicts throughout the region will demand a response this year.
