Introduction Our 2020 global forecast began as follows: Economic dysfunction will remain the main driver of the international system in 2020. Economic stress does not simply flow from whether the economy grows or declines by a percent. It arises from a shift in the pattern of economic behavior. This in turn affects social realities and […]

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