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Zhanna L. Malekos Smith explores what new security warnings may mean for the potential of advances in quantum computing.
Ceding the initiative to an adversary is a…
Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech by Marion Labouré and Nicolas Deffrennes. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press 2022. 288 pp., £28.95 hardcover…
Why not all leaders get a popularity boost in threatening times - and certainly not Joe Biden.
It has been more than hundred days since Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the…
Macho, tough-talking, strongmen have shaped the 21st century’s politics. In fact, the century began with the archetype of contemporary strongman politics, Putin, being elected on…
This is part of in a new collection of commentaries from the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project on the New Development Bank's evolution. Browse…
Petra Minnerop writes on the unprecedented move of a German Court to visit a glacial lake in the Andes to investigate the extraterritorial effects of greenhouse gas emissions that…
Occasionally, the International Space Station (ISS) must perform special dance maneuvers to avoid colliding with other objects. But the “dancing days” of the …
Russell Huang and Grant W. Turner propose that a UK programme that secured Huawei products domestically should be scaled to secure other nations reliant on Huawei.
While US…
Leon Hady argues that it is time to use the government’s Ukrainian policies as the standard for helping all immigrant children.
The Ukrainian conflict has highlighted the systemic…
This is part of in a new collection of commentaries from the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project on the New Development Bank's evolution. Browse…
Anna Stavrianakis explores how international arms transfer rules apply to the war in Ukraine and assesses the implications for international order.
The war in Ukraine has…
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War, and it seemed the end of ideologically driven global conflicts. Thirty years later, there is little…
Bob Hancké and Angela Garcia Calvo take a closer look at the initiatives to build semiconductors in Europe through the perspective of industrial policy successes and failures in…
Daniel Clausen explores how Japan's cities are engaging in state-like actions at home and abroad.
The 21st century has been called the “urban century.” The World Bank estimates…
This is part of in a new collection of commentaries from the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project on the New Development Bank's evolution. Browse…