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Global Trends Magazine, 15 Sep 2026

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Global Trends Magazine is more than a source of news. It is a premium international intelligence platform where global leaders, innovators and decision-makers interpret the forces reshaping business, geopolitics, technology and society. GTM does not merely report change—it anticipates it, connects the ideas behind it and gives a voice to those defining the future.

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ArticleTHE SLOW COLLAPSE

WHEN DECL|NE BECOMES NORMAL

THE SLOW COLLAPSE

ArticleECONOM|CS OF DIVISION

Fdec­ades, we built an eco­nomy on one fun­da­mental assump­tion: con­nec­tion cre­ates more prosper­ity than sep­ar­a­tion. Cap­ital crossed bor­ders. Com­pan­ies became global. Sup­ply chains con­nec­ted con­tin­ents and tech­no­logy made dis­tance...

ECONOM|CS OF DIVISION

ArticleDEJAN ŠTANCER

is the Pres­id­ent of the Global Cham­ber of Busi­ness Lead­ers, Chair of the Board of Global Trends Magazine, and Chair of the Board of the Global Coali­tion for Cooper­a­tion and Peace (GCCP). An inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised states­man, strategist...

DEJAN ŠTANCER

ArticleTHE SLOW COLLAPSE

Sys­tems do not become fra­gile when they stop work­ing. They become fra­gile much earlier—when pre­serving the appear­ance of nor­mal­ity requires ever more debt, inter­ven­tion, polit­ical effort, insti­tu­tional com­prom­ise and human sac­ri­fice....

THE SLOW COLLAPSE

ArticleTHE SLOW COLLAPSE

Cis usu­ally ima­gined as an event: a crash, a default, a revolu­tion, a mar­ket panic. But com­plex sys­tems often deteri­or­ate dif­fer­ently. They con­tinue func­tion­ing while becom­ing pro­gress­ively more expens­ive to main­tain, less cap­able of...

THE SLOW COLLAPSE

Article2.5% GLOBAL GROWTH

- The World Bank expects global growth to slow to 2.5% in 2026, the weak­est rate since the COVID-19 period, with fore­casts down­graded for roughly two-thirds of eco­nom­ies. 94% PUBLIC DEBT - Global pub­lic debt stood just below 94% of GDP in 2025...

2.5% GLOBAL GROWTH

ArticleSHRINKING ROOM TO MANOEUVRE

But cor­rec­tion requires recog­nising deteri­or­a­tion before the sys­tem forces recog­ni­tion. The Reserve That Mat­ters Per­haps the true wealth of a civil­isa­tion is not simply what it owns. |t is how much room it still has to man­oeuvre. Fiscal...

SHRINKING ROOM TO MANOEUVRE

ArticleTHE CAPACITY FOR WONDER Curi­os­ity Keeps Us Alive.

Bwon­der, | mean that sense of awe and curi­os­ity so nat­ural to child­hood, yet one we gradu­ally lose as adults—to routine, to urgency, and to the relent­less pace of every­day life. Some­where along the way, we stop ask­ing why. We become less...

THE CAPACITY FOR WONDER Curi­os­ity Keeps Us Alive.

ArticleH.E. ROSALÍA ARTEAGA

is a prom­in­ent Ecuadorian politi­cian and law­yer who served as Ecuador’s first female Pres­id­ent in 1997. She is also a GCBL Ambas­sador and former Sec­ret­ary-Gen­eral of the Amazon Cooper­a­tion Treaty Organ­iz­a­tion. Arteaga is also known for...

H.E. ROSALÍA ARTEAGA

ArticleBIGGER THAN THE SYSTEM

JDon­ald­son did not build a com­pany and then search for an audi­ence. He built an audi­ence so vast that it became the found­a­tion for com­pan­ies, products, enter­tain­ment, fin­ance, and a new form of eco­nomic power. MrBeast may be the clearest...

BIGGER THAN THE SYSTEM