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The energy wars. Are China and America on a collision course?
Remember those loony conspiracy theorists who saw oil behind every invasion and every war?
Jan 7
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Bruno Maçães
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A new kind of world order. Not order as a final state but ordering as a process.
We all have a sense that the Western or American order is coming to an end, but there is much less clarity on what might follow.
Dec 26, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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Gaza: The Reckoning
The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.
Nov 26, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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Power transitions: Britain, America, China
Geopolitics has taken over the energy transition.
Jun 7, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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Four waves of modernity
Europe played two distinct roles, I think.
Jun 2, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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May 2: The blackout in Spain and Portugal; how to build a new grid for a new energy system; energy as a system of relations
Jorge Sanz, former president of the Commission for the Energy Transition in Spain, argues that fifteen gigawatts were suddenly disconnected from the…
May 2, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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April 27: The system as a third actor; why AI needs solar; how to infect a large language model
One of the topics in World Builders that needs development is the notion of a spectrum of dominance.
Apr 28, 2025
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April 23: Trump as fantasist; American simulations; and the logic of decoupling
You have to admire Trump’s peculiar genius.
Apr 23, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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The Age of World Building Has Begun
Toynbee remarks in one of his essays that for an Englishman in 1897 history seemed to have come to an end.
Apr 18, 2025
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Bruno Maçães
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The rebuilding macroeconomic theory project: Keynes
Among the once unquestionable beliefs that may now take a new meaning is the idea of the economy as a living organism.
Jul 30, 2023
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Bruno Maçães
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The Taiwan Conundrum
We recently attended a workshop on the future of Taiwan with a delegation of very senior scholars from China coordinated and led by Tsinghua University.
Jul 26, 2023
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Bruno Maçães
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Where the Sun Never Sets: Towards a Solar Civilization
I argued in Geopolitics for the End Time that what we saw during the pandemic, a race against every other country, often drawing a form of perverse…
Jul 22, 2023
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Bruno Maçães
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