Nouriel Roubini: America Is the New Center of Global Instability

This week's PS on Sunday features Nouriel Roubini, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Richard Haass, Katharina Pistor, Mohamed A. El-Erian, Dambisa Moyo, and more The Sunday Newsletter [View this message in a web browser]( [PS on Sunday]( JANUARY 17, 2021 This week at [Project Syndicate]( Nouriel Roubini warns that right-wing insurrectionist violence will become even more likely with Joe Biden as president; Joseph E. Stiglitz considers what it will take to uproot the forces that put Donald Trump in the White House; Nina L. Khrushcheva exposes the bankers and politicians who have quietly enabled Trump; and more. Join the conversation. Politics & World Affairs [America Is the New Center of Global Instability]( [Nouriel Roubini]( expects more violence and instability leading up to and following Donald Trump's departure from office. Politics & World Affairs [Whither America?]( [Joseph E. Stiglitz]( highlights the challenges that need to be overcome to avoid a recurrence of Donald Trump's toxic presidency. [Global Knowledge Index]( The unique and unprecedented events of 2020 have accentuated the need for knowledge creation, localization, and sharing. The Global Knowledge Index tracks the knowledge performance of 138 countries in seven key areas: pre-university education; technical and vocational education and training; higher education; research, development, and innovation; information and communications technology; economy; and general enabling environment. The flagship product of the partnership between the United Nations Development Programme and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, the GKI has been released annually since 2017. Politics & World Affairs [Who Profits from the Assault on American Democracy?]( [Nina L. Khrushcheva]( blames the US Capitol attack on the country's leading propagandists – and those who quietly invest in them. Politics & World Affairs [Donald Trump’s Costly Legacy]( [Richard Haass]( offers a damning verdict on the failures of the 45th US president's single term in office. [Saving America's Public Pensions]( On Point [Saving America's Public Pensions]( [Ben Meng]( explains how struggling institutional investors can meet their goals in today's financial environment. Economics & Finance [Europe’s China Gambit]( [Dani Rodrik]( explains why the new bilateral investment treaty cannot serve as a tool to transform the Chinese system. Technology & Society [How Companies Should Leverage Digitization]( [Dambisa Moyo]( identifies five key areas where firms must apply cutting-edge technologies – or risk being left behind. [Doing Business with China]( The Big Picture [Doing Business with China]( PS commentators assess whether Western leaders can balance political and human-rights concerns with commercial considerations. Politics & World Affairs [The Effort to Disqualify Trump Is Worth It]( [Eric Posner]( thinks trying to bar the president from future office-holding is justified despite the long political odds. Culture & Society [Time to Update the Leadership Script]( [Helen Clark]( shares survey findings showing persistent, deeply entrenched biases against women in senior roles. [US Foreign Policy after “America First”]( Opinion Has It podcast [US Foreign Policy after “America First”]( [Kori Schake]( and host [Elmira Bayrasli]( find reasons for hope – and trepidation – in Joe Biden’s foreign-policy plans. Politics & World Affairs [Saving US Democracy from Corporate America]( [Katharina Pistor]( dismisses the business community's fair-weather criticism of Donald Trump's war on the constitutional order. Economics & Finance [The BRICs at 20]( [Jim O’Neill]( reflects on two decades of global economic rebalancing and international institutions' lagging response to it. [The Big Bounce-Back?]( The Year Ahead 2021 magazine [The Big Bounce-Back?]( [Mohamed A. El-Erian]( highlights three ways in which policymakers must mitigate the pandemic's economic fallout in 2021. [Register now to attend our virtual session of The Davos Agenda, Grassroots Globalization.]( 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. This newsletter is a service of [project-syndicate.org](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from this list](