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Successful state formation processes are a crucial element for the development of well-functioning institutions. However, there are many instances of state building encountering resistance by local communities. This column uses Italian unification as a historical case study to investigate how cultural proximity to the new ruler may promote successful state building. The
Vaccine hesitancy has threatened the success of COVID immunisation campaigns worldwide, making the reasons that people refuse vaccination a central issue for policymakers. This column exploits a quasi-experiment arising from the suspension of the ChAdOx1-S vaccine – initially called AstraZeneca and later rebranded Vaxzevria – during the Italian immunisation campaign. The
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appears to have laid the old world order to rest. This column argues that we now stand at a crossroads. To guide us to a Benign Anthropocene that mobilises a transnational collective spirit for addressing the major global problems of our time – instead of a Toxic Anthropocene marked by deglobalisation, a collapse of global collective action,
The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.
