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Can the word ‘polycrisis’ help us make sense of the post-COVID world? Historian Adam Tooze has his say

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Polycrisis

The Polycrisis is an idea that was launched by a French theorist of complexities called Edgum Warat. Jean-Claude Juncker used it to describe the experience of trying to govern Europe when you had to deal with the Greek debt crisis. Putin's first aggression against Ukraine and the sort of rumblings of Brexit in the background are all part of what we're dealing with, he says.

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