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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

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

The Only Plane in the Sky
An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
10 Book

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

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

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

Signals
The 27 Trends Defining the Future of the Global Economy
Jeff Desjardins
Wiley, 2021
9 Book

The Precipice
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord
Hachette Book Group USA, 2020
9 Book

Freezing Order
A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill Browder
Simon & Schuster, 2022