Intersections

The Twilight of International Peacemaking Institutions? (Richard Gowan – Crisis Group)

These are hard times for formal international institutions. The post-Cold War period saw the rapid expansion of multilateral organisations in numerous policy domains, not...

The end of the endless frontier? A warning on research cuts (Michael Feuer – Brookings)

For eight decades, bipartisan support for federally funded research has driven U.S. scientific leadership, economic growth, and life-saving innovation. Proposed cuts to university-based research...

Starve, Pray, Die. In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions...

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation, which is affiliated with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts...

The rise of false flag conspiracy theories in moments of crises (Valeria de la Fuente – Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

False flag conspiracy theories predate the internet by decades, but the speed and volume at which they now spread is unprecedented, with claims increasing...

Online radicalization and the nexus to violence in the US: 2024 year in review (Jared Holt, Cody Zoschak, Katherine Keneally – Institute for Strategic...

In recent years, violent attacks with weapons and other acts of politically charged violence in the US have challenged longstanding frameworks used to identify...

Operation Overload’s underwhelming influence and evolving tactics (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

Operation Overload, also referred to as Matryoshka and Storm-1679, is a Russian-aligned information operation that impersonates credible sources to sow confusion and undermine public...

Tackling the energy, food and water nexus – here are the key priorities (Arunabha Ghosh, Jane Nelson – World Economic Forum)

Demand for food, water and energy is rising rapidly – by 2050, food demand could increase by over 50%, energy by up to 19%...

Like It or Not, Democratic Societies Need Clearly Defined Adversaries (Daniel Hegedüs, Goran Buldioski – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Over the past decade, the “boiling frog” has been a popular metaphor for the democratic decline in Western societies. While this gradual decline has...

Asia’s humanities under pressure from AI surge (DigWatch)

Universities across Asia, notably in China, are slashing liberal arts enrollments to expand STEM and AI programmes. Institutions like Fudan and Tsinghua are reducing...

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