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Global Risks

In this channel you will find summaries on acute threats or worrisome trends such as terrorism, climate-change, corruption or deadly pandemics.

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Summaries

9 Book

Slow Burn
The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
R. Jisung Park
Princeton UP, 2024
9 Article

Geopolitics in the C-Suite
More Than Ever, U.S. Foreign Policy Depends on Corporations—and Vice Versa
Jami Miscik et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2024
10 Book

The Heat Will Kill You First
Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
Little, Brown US, 2023
9 Article

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the US
Hannah Dreier traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia for this story and spoke to more than 100 migrant child workers in 20 states.
Hannah Dreier
The New York Times, 2023
9 Book

The Global Risks Report 2023
Insight Report, 18th Edition
Sophie Heading and Saadia Zahidi
World Economic Forum, 2023
9 Book

A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
UC Press, 2021
Book

How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
Barbara F. Walter
Crown, 2022
Book

A World after Liberalism
Philosophers of the Radical Right
Matthew Rose
Yale UP, 2021
8 Podcast

Why Immigrants Are America’s Superpower
Wendy Edelberg and David Dollar
Brookings Institution, 2023
Book

Nomad Century
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Gaia Vince
Flatiron Books, 2022
9 Report

Deepfakes and International Conflict
Daniel L. Byman et al.
Brookings Institution, 2023
8 Book

MegaThreats
Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them
Nouriel Roubini
Little, Brown US, 2022