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Global Risks

In this channel you will find summaries on acute threats or worrisome trends such as terrorism, climate-change, corruption or deadly pandemics.

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Summaries

10 Book

The Only Plane in the Sky
An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
9 Book

A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
UC Press, 2021
10 Book

The Heat Will Kill You First
Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
Little, Brown US, 2023
8 Book

The Ungrateful Refugee
What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri
Catapult, 2019
9 Book

Freezing Order
A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill Browder
Simon & Schuster, 2022
9 Book

Slow Burn
The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
R. Jisung Park
Princeton UP, 2024
9 Article

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the US
Hannah Dreier traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia for this story and spoke to more than 100 migrant child workers in 20 states.
Hannah Dreier
The New York Times, 2023
9 Book

The Global Risks Report 2023
Insight Report, 18th Edition
Sophie Heading and Saadia Zahidi
World Economic Forum, 2023
8 Book

Five Times Faster
Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
Simon Sharpe
Cambridge UP, 2023
8 Podcast

Why Immigrants Are America’s Superpower
Wendy Edelberg and David Dollar
Brookings Institution, 2023
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
8 Book

MegaThreats
Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them
Nouriel Roubini
Little, Brown US, 2022