Browse the council’s debates by topic and by place. Thirty-seven historic leaders and thinkers, from Confucius to Keynes, the questions they took on, and the very different conclusions they reached.
Can a superpower repair its own democracy while it polices everyone else’s?
Can Europe regain its competitiveness and its power, or only manage its own decline?
Will a richer China grow freer or more assertive, and what should the world do if it moves on Taiwan?
How do you fix a housing crisis, tax wealth without driving it abroad, or decide whether to reopen Groningen’s gas?
Should the state steer the economy, or get out of the way?
What makes a state actually work, when should it step in to regulate, and how does it hold together under strain?
What breaks the cycle of radicalization, and who should get to vote?
When should a nation bind itself in alliances, and when act alone?
How should the West answer Russia, and what do outsiders owe the wars of the Middle East?
How fast should we leave fossil fuels behind, and must growth itself slow to save the planet?
How do you govern AI without strangling it, and who captures the gains when it takes the jobs?