Hugo Drochon: Macron's trial by fire

Also, Joseph Stiglitz, Ian Bremmer, and others consider what Trump and Harris would do if elected, and we share a new interview with Kishore Mahbubani [View this message in a web browser]( SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 This week in PS Longer Reads, the University of Nottingham's Hugo Drochon reflects on French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to maintain control after a painful election season. [Read now](. In PS Big Picture, Ian Bremmer, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Joseph E. Stiglitz, and others assess the US presidential candidates’ likely approaches to foreign policy, the economy, and more. [Read now](. And in PS Say More, Kishore Mahbubani offers advice to Western diplomats attempting to engage with Asia, identifies risks to the region’s stability, and more. [Read now](. [PS Longer Reads: Macron’s Trial by Fire]( [Macron’s Trial by Fire]( By Hugo Drochon Even if Emmanuel Macron can restore stability to France by working closely with Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the bigger question is what will become of Macronism, his famous strategy of bringing together ideas from the left and the right. Whether Jupiter will achieve political immortality very much remains to be seen. [Read more]( [PS. Register now for our upcoming Climate Week NYC 2024 event.]( [PS Big Picture: What Harris and Trump Will Do]( [What Harris and Trump Will Do]( with Daron Acemoglu, Anders Åslund, Shang Jin-Wei, and others With less than two months to go until the US presidential election, the candidates’ opposing worldviews, objectives, and priorities – and their implications for international relations, the economy, and democracy – have come into sharper focus. While it is impossible to know exactly what a leader will do once in office, the contours of both a Donald Trump and a Kamala Harris presidency are remarkably well defined. [Read more]( [PS Say More: Kishore Mahbubani on the US-China rivalry, Asian security risks, and more]( [Kishore Mahbubani on the US-China rivalry, Asian security risks, and more]( Kishore Mahbubani offers advice to Western diplomats attempting to engage with Asia, identifies risks to the region’s stability, highlights Singapore’s lessons for developing-country leaders, and more. Mahbubani is a distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and the author, most recently, of [Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir](. [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: The Water-Security Crisis]( [The Water-Security Crisis]( By Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam Increasingly severe water shortages represent a human-made crisis that can be resolved through human interventions. The situation demands new thinking about the economics of this critical resource and how to manage it through mission-oriented strategies that span all levels of governance. [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. Secure exclusive rights to PS content [here](. Interested in advertising opportunities? Email sponsorship@project-syndicate.org. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.