Moisés Naím / World Energy & Oil
The plan to upgrade China’s energy mix announced by President Xi Jinping during the 19th National Congress of the CCP, which is expected to contribute to reducing CO2 emissions, faces five political and economic challenges that could hinder its implementation.
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Moisés Naím / The Atlantic
The good news is that much of the world is fed up with corruption. The bad news is that the way many are fighting corruption is ineffective. Too often, the remedy centers on finding and empowering an honest leader who promises to stamp out the problem. Worldwide, candidates for elected offices are running on highly personalized anti-corruption platforms, offering themselves as the solution. What countries really need, though, are smart laws that reduce the incentives and opportunities for corruption. They also need strong institutions that enforce those laws and deprive corrupt officials, and their private-sector accomplices, of impunity in their efforts to get rich at the public’s expense.
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Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro / The Moscow Times
Russia is Venezuela’s lender of last resort, the last and only place the government can turn in search of a financial lifeline
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Moisés Naím / El País
The implicit purpose of many dystopian novels is to illustrate today’s world through the description of the future.
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Moisés Naím / The Washington Post
The Internet makes apathetic voters especially vulnerable to the manipulations of demagogues, particular interests, or even foreign powers.
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Moisés Naím / New York Times
The world needs permanent organizations that earn political power and govern, that are forced to articulate disparate interests and viewpoints, that can recruit and develop future government leaders and that monitor those already in power.
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Andrew Weiss and Moisés Naím / The Washington Post
For all its bellicose talk and new sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s government, the Trump administration has been oddly silent about Russia’s role, perhaps preferring not to draw attention to the fact that Moscow is now the bankrupt nation’s lender of last resort.
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Moisés Naím / The Atlantic
Economic progress and increased prosperity do not always buy more political stability.
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Moisés Naím / The Washington Post
Flags serve as a powerful symbol of a nation, its ideals, and its people.
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Moisés Naím / El País
Trump has put an end to the idea that corruption and nepotism at the highest levels of government can only flourish in banana republics
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Moisés Naím/ El País
Leadership in the fight against global warming is moving from the White House to Europe and China
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Moisés Naím / World Energy & Oil
Latin America is an energy giant hobbled by its politics. Its energy reality falls far short of its immense possibilities. This gap has many reasons—punitive regulations, lack of innovation, inadequate infrastructure, weak property rights, corruption and more. Latin America’s geology is great for energy production but its prevailing ideology is far less conducive to the adoption of successful energy policies. Indeed, politics underlies many of the obstacles that limit Latin America’s energy performance. From longstanding resource nationalism to the populism common throughout the region, politics has always shaped the way the Latin American nations explore, produce, consume and, in some cases, export energy.
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Moisés Naím / El País
The New World Order will be defined by those who fill the power gaps left by the United States
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Moisés Naím / The Atlantic
And removing him from office won’t ease the country’s misery.
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Moisés Naím / El País
He is simply the useful idiot, the puppet of those who really rule Venezuela.
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Moisés Naím / El País
Democracy contributes the most precious ingredient for tyrants: legitimacy
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Moisés Naím / The Atlantic
Around the world, politicians can follow a simple recipe to present themselves as saviors of “the people.”
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Moisés Naím / El País
What typically brings down people in power is the cover up, not the crime
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Moisés Naím / El País
The variety, intensity, vindictiveness, and, at times, the banality of the conflicts coming from Trump are not normal
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Moisés Naím / El País
A new study documents why mortality is higher among poorly educated whites
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