THE WORLD IN 2022
BACK TO THE FUTURE?
The world went through 2021 with bated breath. It was the year of the global recovery following the most intense waves of the pandemic, but also of the energy price crisis. It was the year of ambitious vaccination campaigns as well as “great inflation”. Much of this year already projects us into the future: from the challenges of the green and digital transitions, to the ambitious (and already contested) investment plans launched by the US and Europe. However, much of this year also casts us back to the past, between an increasingly less “global” globalization, the growing rivalry between China and the US – a new cold war? –, and a pandemic that is anything but defeated. In short, next year might look like a “back to the future” kind of scenario, which ISPI’s “The World in 2022″ dossier investigates.
