Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

All Recent FutureChallenges Posts

  • Reindeers and children by ugraland on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

    Russia: nomads fight for the Arctic

    Written by

    Russia is cursed with its resources: the oil and gas industry is growing so fast that 50% of the federal budget and three quarters of exports depend on its production. It seems that the country does not produce anything, but just relies on its natural resources.  At the same time […]

  • Slovenian Politics Misuse the Second World War Conflict

    Written by

    If in America the political battle is waged on the premise of economic policy, with low taxes and free markets on the one side and regulation and progressive taxation on the other, in Slovenia the battle is fought over ideological views of events that happened during and after the Second […]

  • Evening traffic on Le Thai To Street in Hanoi, Vietnam.

    Future Scenarios for Hanoi in 2035

    Researchers from the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) team took a look at alternative futures in Hanoi and developed four very different scenarios for how the city’s entrepreneurs would do in the year 2035. The Vietnamese capital is undergoing several drastic changes. The city’s look and feel are changing, and the […]

  • Elephant in Motion

    BRICS Reports: An Elephant In Motion

    Written by

    This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. At the end of […]

  • Papua New Guinea and the game of mining: who wins? who loses?

    Written by

    Hot. Stuffy. Noisy. White man dressed in checkered shirt and jeans. Oh and there’s another one. And another one. Some carrying brief cases and laptop bags.  Some burying their faces in newspapers. Some intensely engaged in conversations on their mobile phones. This is a typical scene at the Jackson Airport […]