Diplomacy & International Relations

Will Egypt Be the Next Syria? (Shady ElGhazaly Harb, Journal of Democracy)

Fourteen years ago, when the Jasmine Revolution forced Tunisia’s dictator, President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, to give up his 23-year grip on power and...

Asian democracies in doubt about DeepSeek (Seth Hays – East Asia Forum)

The release of China's DeepSeek R1 generative AI model has prompted Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to reassess their AI governance in terms of...

Europe needs both sword and shield to deter Russia (Charlie Edwards, IISS)

In the coming weeks and months, Russia is likely to intensify its hybrid warfare to sow discord in European capitals and populations via cyberspace,...

Tech in big picture: Emerging trends in 2025 (Siddharth Yadav, Observer Research Foundation)

Frontier technologies have come to occupy centre stage in geopolitical discussions and national strategies in recent years. In 2025, the trepidations associated with establishing...

AI in humanitarian missions: Opportunities and challenges (Samar Jai Singh Jaswal – Observer Research Foundation)

Humanitarian crises are becoming increasingly complex, driven by factors such as protracted conflicts, climate change, global pandemics, and mass displacement. These challenges have burdened...

DeepSeek, Huawei, Export Controls, and the Future of the U.S.-China AI Race (Gregory C. Allen, Center for Strategic & International Studies)

Six months ago, few in the West aside from obsessive AI professionals had heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab founded barely more...

DeepSeek Points Toward U.S.-China Cooperation, Not a Race (Simon Goldstein, Peter N. Salib – Lawfare)

On Jan. 1, the Chinese company DeepSeek released r1, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that matches the performance of recent American reasoning models...

Securing Full Stack U.S. Leadership in AI (Navin Girishankar, Joseph Majkut, Cy McGeady, Barath Harithas, and Karl Smith – Center for Strategic & International...

Today, the United States leads the world in generative AI. Its frontier labs set the pace in model development, U.S. firms control more than...

Problems With a Criminal Law Response to Transnational Repression (Jeremy Daum, Lawfare)

On Feb. 10, a jury in Boston acquitted Litang Liang of charges that he unlawfully acted as an unregistered foreign agent for the People’s...

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