Biteback Publishing , 2021 By Brian Boyd This is the third of a three-part series Peaceful Competition In his final chapters Letwin promotes simply that “peaceful competition” between the economically competing major powers, especially between the US and China, is the only way forward. But Letwin is not naïve, saying serious realistic strategies to reconstruct the international economic system will …

Biteback Publishing , 2021 By Brian Boyd This is the second of a three-part series The causes of failure in the international system The above heading leads chapter 8 of Letwin’s book. He promotes the need for an effective ‘principal of non-aggression’ between nations. Such an approach was finally codified in the 2010 amendment of the Roman Statute of the …

Biteback Publishing , 2021 By Brian Boyd This is the first of a three-part series Introduction In the era of great power rivalry, former British politician Oliver Letwin makes a useful contribution to the badly needed public discussion on where this intensifying competition is leading the world into the rest of the 21st-century. Specifically, the respective economic ‘spheres of influence …

By Richard Stone A recent report from the OECD has shown how the business classes and corporate sector have responded to economic problems, marked by declining GDP growth rates. Economic systems they are responsible for creating are not healthy and vibrant, but openly revealing signs of deterioration and decay. Shifting away from economic rationalist models foisted upon countries across the …