PROSPECT STAFF
After the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, it seemed fair enough to expect—and perhaps hope—that 2017 would be a year of relative quiet. Not so. We’ve had swirling political chaos in the United States, the first bruising rounds of the Brexit haggle—and the small matter of a general election.
Reading this year’s entries for the Think Tank Awards, one theme emerged—the challenges posed by countries and sections of society digging themselves into trenches. Perhaps as a reaction against our interconnected world, the sense of difference seems to be heightening, dividing one group from another. The more we looked, the more we realised how many entrants were confronting the question of what happens once we’ve retreated into our silos. This is, perhaps, the most general problem of 2017—complicating the task of solving everything from tax evasion to climate change internationally, and of tackling poverty and security at home.
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