There’s a fascinating climate “trilemma” emerging in the global business world. As with economist Dani Rodrik’s global economy trilemma, in which "democracy, national sovereignty, and global economic ...

The original blockchain trilemma claimed that blockchain users were always going to have to choose between decentralization, scalability, and security. At best, they could have two out of three. The ...

A trilemma is a situation that presents three possible choices to a complex challenge. Due to mutual exclusivity of the available choices, achieving them simultaneously is always a daunting task. The ...

Trilemmas are everywhere. Defined as either a forced single choice among three unfavorable options or a two-out-of-three-only choice among favorable options, trilemmas involve trade-offs. The latter, ...

This article originally appeared on the Brookings Institution site on March 9, 2016. To read the original version of this post, including charts, click here. China's central banker, Zhou Xiaochuan of ...

Balancing Nuclear Modernization, Alliance Management and Effective Arms Control in a Competitive Security Environment United States nuclear policy faces a trilemma. In an increasingly tight fiscal ...