GB goes fireside with the polymath professor and recent political battler to chat about the future look and content of government,...
Tags: Adam Smith, Canadian politics, civil society, future of politics, Global Brief, Leaders, Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, political discourse, provincialism, teaching leadership, Wealth of Nations
With classical state power plays clearly back en vogue, the collective responsibilities of the new century will be all the...
Tags: Adam Smith, bilateral relationships, BRIC, Charles Emmerson, collective economic and political order, Communism, diplomacy, East-West relations, energy security, Global Brief, global commons, global economic institutions, global market, global system, Global War on Terror, globalization, human history, human political organization, interdependence, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, national state, state-sponsored piracy, strategic cooperation, trade wars, war on drugs, war on poverty, winning states, World Economic Forum, WTO, zero-sum world
The art of the deal lies in spotting mutual advantage, and avoiding deals based on misunderstanding and misinformation –...
