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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…
Chris Dunn and Morgan Bazilian summarize how satellite data is rapidly growing in importance for informing crucial policy decisions. Insights offered fall into one of three main…
Negotiating Survival: Civilian–Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan by Ashley Jackson. London: Hurst 2021. 328 pp., £30 hardcover 9781787384859
Ashley Jackson’s fascinating book,…
Andreas Antoniades and Stefanie Ortmann remind us that Russia’s war in Ukraine has set in motion broader systemic dynamics that the world will need answers for regardless of…
James McBride argues that, in light of climate change, the Rome Statute should be amended to enable the prosecution of corporations and their officers for the destruction of the…
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…
Dave Anderson explains that Putin’s thinking regarding nuclear weapons cannot be understood through the lens of Western rationality. World War III, though irrational to the…