New world requires new arguments

And communicators need to adapt their strategies to a new global reality.

The success of the Brexit referendum in the U.K., Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in last year’s U.S. presidential election, the rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe, and the surprisingly strong showing in the recent British election of a hard-left wing Labour Party, all suggest that large chunks of world public opinion are turning against the global consensus which more or less materialized in 1991 after the Soviet Union’s sudden collapse.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

August 14, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—We hear a lot these days about how we need to prepare for global climate change, but there’s another kind of global change happening right now, and it too requires our attention. Or at least it requires the attention of those who pontificate on politics, because the global change...

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