More than eight years after the signing of the first bailout package, Greece has now returned to positive - albeit eager - growth rates. However, is the Greek crisis over? Using data from a series of studies conducted by the Greek think tank diaNEOsis, the case will be made that Greece is facing four existential challenges in the years ahead: the second worst demographic profile in the EU, a slow adaption to climate change and to the forces of technological change, along with the lowest level of social capital in the EU.

Modern retail banking creates a kind of panopticon for consumer behaviour, ultimately promising to implement a mechanism that binds all of the financial activities undertaken by an individual to a single, unitary identity. In the age of Big Data, consumers have legitimate reasons to resist such surveillance, particularly in cases wherein monitoring is carried out without their knowledge and judgments based upon such monitoring are used to disincentivise or punish legitimate activities.

As the IMF warns leaders once more to find ways to overcome their populist pressures and redouble efforts to improve trade, can the UK and China provide a path through? China's ambitions for BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) are well known. Britain's concepts of a ‘rules based order’ are still sketchy. But can we combine the ideas to make progress across what will soon become the world's most important trade zone? And if so, how?

As scholars from a range of disciplines have compellingly argued, the boundary between war and peace has grown more faint through the Global War on Terror. The concatenating series of global episodes that could happen most anywhere at nearly any time remediates the global scope of the Cold War, but in such a way that has enabled a more mutable cast of smaller non-state actors to proliferate. This scaling down toward the level of the individual has meant a shift in the methods of targeted persuasion to mobilize fighters, affect morale, and prompt defection.

"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars." he said.
"And that would be splendid," said Pierre.
Prince Andrei smiled ironically.
"Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about..." -- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy