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About Global Brief

Global Brief is a top-tier international affairs magazine with a heavy global readership. It was founded in 2009. Publishing quarterly in print and online out of the Institute for 21st Century Questions (21CQ), GB features the original works of leading and rising-star writers on world affairs writ large – international politics, business, culture, movements and trends.

GB has no moral mandate. It is not Anglospheric. It is not sensationalist. Nor is it fatalistic. Rather, it seeks to analyze and explain the world in all its bald complexities, to anticipate different ‘strategic futures,’ and to reflect – with policy relevance and nuance – on ways to address these complexities.

The cutting-edge, critically acclaimed, highly eclectic print version of GB publishes four times per year in English and French. Each issue of GB is heavily edited and fact-checked and, to be sure, beautiful on the strength of original art and world-beating art direction. Each number consists of a wide and original array of first-class essays (Features); synoptic briefings (One Pager); follow-up analyses and enquiries (Query); in-theatre reports (In Situ); point-counterpoint, head-to-head debates (Nez à Nez); kinetic interviews (Tête à Tête); surveys of premier global thinkers on key questions (The Definition) and on the world to come (Strategic Futures); and, finally, levity through mock dialogues of a given government’s Cabinet Room, as well as an evocative Epigram.

GB regularly publishes top writers from around the world, from Steven Pinker, Lloyd Axworthy, Kishore Mahbubani, Louise Arbour, Hubert Védrine, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Chrystia Freeland, Noam Chomsky and Shashi Tharoor, to Abdou Diouf, Roméo Dallaire, Jan Egeland, John Kay, Louise Fréchette, John de Chastelain, Hubert Védrine, James Orbinski, Margaret MacMillan, Martin Wolf, Geoff Mulgan, Michael Ignatieff and, among many others, Alvaro de Soto, Fareed Zakaria, Ramesh Thakur, John Polanyi and Philippe Kirsch.