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The next gathering of heads of state and government takes place in Brussels from 11-12 July. The summit comes amid tensions over whether member countries are meeting domestic military spending targets. At the 2014 summit in Wales, NATO members made a “Defence Investment Pledge” to move towards spending 2% of GDP on defence within a decade (for those member states not already doing so).

5 facts about global military spending

By: EBR | Friday, July 13, 2018

Since its founding in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has convened members at important moments to reinforce partnership and address critical issues

A woman who is 40 years old today can expect to live another 45 years, on average, while 5% will live to see their 100th birthday. The average 40-year-old man will live another 42. For many people, most of those years will be healthy enough to continue work that doesn’t involve intense physical labor. So why are we still packing all of our career and family obligations into a few frantic decades?

A Stanford researcher says we shouldn’t start working full time until age 40

By: EBR | Friday, July 13, 2018

For people smack in the mad mid-life rush of managing full-time careers, dependent children, and aging parents, nothing feels so short in supply as time

The era of hard-talking, tyrannical managers is over – both on and off the pitch. “Football, which I love and work in, is really bad at talking,” says Caulfield. “It does instructing and telling off but it doesn’t do talking and listening and empathy that well. It sounds a bit fluffy but that’s the world in which we now live, and the world in which these players have grown up.” Southgate, he says, realised early in his coaching career that instilling fear wasn’t going to work. “We all need a telling-off now and then – and he’s good at that, by the way – but you’ll get far more from putting your faith in people than you will anything else. People had this lazy opinion that he’s too ‘nice’ and they see kindness as weakness, but it’s the most unbelievable strength if you use it in the right way.”

How the psychology of the England football team could change your life

By: EBR | Friday, July 13, 2018

England players seem happier and more grounded – and much of the credit goes to psychologist Pippa Grange. What can the team’s approach teach us all about facing fear and failure?

Generally, people believe that immigrants are poorer, more dependent on welfare, and more numerous than they really are. That’s according to study published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, based on a 2018 survey in six developed countries.

What do Americans think about immigration?

By: EBR | Friday, July 13, 2018

Immigration may be at the center of the American political debate, but a new Harvard University study shows Americans are missing a crucial piece of information

The global community very much exists. At the same time, there is no automatic mechanism to deploy it. It largely happens on a voluntary basis. But when it happens, it is a powerful and wonderful thing to see in action.

Boys in a Thai cave: the positive power of globalism

By: EBR | Thursday, July 12, 2018

The events near Chang Rai powerfully underscore that a “global community” very much exists – and that it can have very positive effects on the lives and well-being of people

Trump sees NATO not as an organization that provides safety but one that should give value for money. Trump sees NATO not as an organization that provides safety but one that should give value for money. He has assailed NATO because he believes that allies are free-riding on the back of the United States; that they take America’s security guarantee for granted. He’s right. NATO’s European allies are dependent on the United States. And they have become dependent in a way that led to a kind of intellectual neglect or laziness about their own perception of security and defense.

NATO’s Relevance

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Whatever President Trump says and thinks about the relevance of NATO, so far the alliance has coped with crises and criticism

Russia’s plan to raise Stalin-era pension ages draws opposition

By: EBR | Monday, July 9, 2018

While several different issues have come to the fore regarding Russia in the West, one has taken precedence in Russia itself: Legislation supporting a pension age increase for both men and women

Supported by the Japanese government and businesses, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan will co-design pilot projects to speed up Japan’s response to technological change. The goal is two-fold: First, to help Japan make the most of technology as it confronts critical issues like an aging and shrinking population — part of an ambitious program of social transformation that Japanese leaders are calling Society 5.0.

Could Japan become a role model for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

By: EBR | Friday, July 6, 2018

Leveraging fast-emerging technologies like self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and data-intensive precision medicine to address social challenges is a goal that many countries share

First and foremost, your primary task is not to tell people climate change is happening, or to make them worry about it. They already know, and they are already concerned. Despite what some media outlets and politicians would have you believe, public awareness of and concern about climate change is consistently high. Around two thirds of the US public worry about climate change “a great deal” or “a fair amount”, as they have done for two decades. In the UK, three quarters are concerned.

How to talk about climate change: 5 tips from the front lines

By: EBR | Friday, July 6, 2018

I have spent almost my entire working life in climate science and policy, social enterprise, government, and now philanthropy. Over time, I have seen public communication as increasingly important. Why?

The minister put all her hopes on Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who will be travelling later this month to Washington to seek a solution to the potential trade war between the US and the EU. But if the Trump administration decides to hit European cars, there will be consequences. “We will react with countermeasures because we need to protect our industry,” Schrambock warned. “I have the feeling that we stand together as one on this,” she said.

Austria Presidency pushes for dialogue on US-EU trade dispute

By: EBR | Thursday, July 5, 2018

Austria’s EU Presidency is committed to preserving EU unity on the US trade dispute during its mandate but wants the European Commission to prioritise a transatlantic dialogue and avoid escalation

Across seven studies, we hypothesised that imagining an alternative offer causes negotiators to boost their aspirations and motivates them to demand more from their opponents. In one study, for example, 306 online participants were divided into three groups. They were told to sell a second-hand CD to a potential buyer and were instructed to make a first offer. One group was told that another buyer was offering US$8 for the CD, which gave them a strong alternative. Another group lacked an alternative offer. The third group also lacked an alternative but was instructed to imagine what it would feel like to have one, what this alternative would look like and how it would affect their upcoming negotiation.

Imagine alternatives to negotiate more ambitiously

By: EBR | Thursday, July 5, 2018

Mentally simulating an attractive alternative can provide some of the advantages that real alternatives typically offer

Psychological experiments in recent years have uncovered other routes to power, beyond formal hierarchy and individual expertise. For instance, asking people to dwell on prior instances of empowerment can prime feelings of power. While such psychological manipulations involving recall tasks are reliable, they do require having experienced a sense of power in the past and a good memory. What if there was a way, in our daily interactions, to enhance our feelings of power without having to rely on memory?

Why power seekers give advice

By: EBR | Thursday, July 5, 2018

How giving advice makes some feel powerful and why it can be dangerous

In particular, Trump lacks a set of innovation and industrial policies that countries like China and Germany deploy to build strong industry. Rather than investing in America, Trump pushed through a major tax cut that slashes investment and jeopardizes the United States’s ability to do so in the future. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the tax cut will widen the deficit to $1 trillion per year in 2020.

How Trump should think about China

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 3, 2018

As China’s example shows, a country needs to invest in its future prosperity. Tariffs and tax cuts are no way to get there

The US President has made no secret of his contempt for the Alliance. He thinks the US is being taken advantage of: European states aren't spending enough on defence and who wants to sit around talking endlessly about cooperation and solidarity anyway?

Trump is wrong: guns alone don’t make a super power

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Having struck at the heart of the once all-powerful Group of Seven (G7) of industrialised countries, caused havoc among world trading nations and insulted almost all key allies, is US President Donald Trump now going to take an axe to the NATO military alliance?

Over the next seven decades, GDP calculations would not generally include unpaid (and mostly female) labour. But Deane’s work shows us this was not the only way to measure economic production. As GDP calculations come under increasing criticism, we should look to her research for a way forward.

History tells us we've got GDP wrong. Here's why

By: EBR | Friday, June 29, 2018

It’s been nearly 80 years since British economists James Meade and Richard Stone devised a method of national income accounting that would become the global standard. Today, we call it a country’s gross domestic product (GDP)

A series of recent developments suggests that the domestic political situations of several key players in the international arena are undergoing significant shifts, as are relations between players. Everything seems to indicate that the world is in another period of historical transition.

Three scenarios for the future of geopolitics

By: EBR | Friday, June 29, 2018

To understand events in the international arena, it helps to distinguish whether our current period is essentially stable or in significant flux

“The CNDH has been instrumental in bringing about real and positive change in Morocco but, as is outlined in the report, there is still much to do,” said Fautre commending real progress in the country. Fautre added, “The fact finding mission in Morocco was designed to identify the most urgent issues and this report seeks to analyse these in detail. It also shows that the EU’ssoft power can contribute to promoting human rights in this country and elsewhere.”

HRWF Report recommends measures to boost human rights in Morocco

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 27, 2018

A major new report by a leading rights group says that “significant progress” has been made in promoting democracy and human rights in Morocco

The first EU reaction to Turkey’s elections was a prudent acknowledgement of the results and an expression of the need to urgently address key shortcomings regarding the rule of law and fundamental rights. The interesting aspect will be the tone that EU leaders use in acknowledging Erdogan’s victory. The sorry experiences in of Berlin and The Hague last year and Paris in January will perhaps not induce much enthusiasm. They will express a clear will to continue working with Turkey, but effusive embraces are not in the mood as Turkish interferences in domestic EU politics are still on everyone’s mind.

The European Union and the New Turkey

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 27, 2018

The EU should continue to increase its support to human rights defenders, independent media and civil society. This is probably an even more arduous task than before the election

The roots of the order run back to the mid-1940s, when US officials concluded that the United States should work to shape the postwar settlement in more structured, collaborative and rule-bound ways. They conceived of global organizations to promote collective problem-solving, avert protectionist impulses, and stabilize the world economy.

We need a new international order. Here’s why

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Few global issues have taken on more current importance than the future of the postwar, rule-based international order

To be sure, large charities such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have financially sophisticated endowment funds. However, small- and medium-sized charities with funds of up to US$50 million may not be aware that they could do a better job of maximising their funds for the long term.

How charities can ensure financial longevity

By: EBR | Monday, June 25, 2018

Charities should create an investment strategy to meet long-term financial liabilities

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