Masaaki Shirakawa is distinguished professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and was governor of the Bank of Japan from 2008 to 2013 and vice chairman of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements from 2011 to 2013. He is also a member of the Group of 30.
On September 12–13, 2026, India will take centre stage as host of the 18th BRICS Summit, bringing together an increasingly consequential gathering of the Global South. The small five-member group that India
Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Europe’s terrorist threat has changed fundamentally. The era of large, hierarchically organised operations remains part of the history of modern terrorism, but the contemporary threat is increasingly defined by decentralised initiative, digital
A U.S. military judge has set June 5, 2028, as the new trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the accused mastermind of the
Israel’s offensive to seize Ali al-Taher Ridge, a major Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, threatens to reverberate far beyond the battlefield. According to an
Following excerpts adapted from Tumultuous Times: Central Banking in an Era of Crisis by Masaaki Shirakawa published by Yale University Press. This is a rare insider’s account of the inner workings of
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