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Guardian of the Danube: Romania’s Mixed Progress in Implementing a Black Sea Strategy (George Vișan, The Jamestown Foundation)

Romania’s maritime environment consists of the Danube River and the Black Sea. The river links the country to the sea providing an important trade...

Why New York City is cracking down on AI in hiring (Nicol Turner Lee and Samantha Lai, Brookings)

The New York City Council voted 38-4 on November 10, 2021 to pass a bill that would require hiring vendors to conduct annual bias audits of...

Can COVID-19’s supply chain disruptions help Western Balkan competitiveness? (Yan Liu, Zenia Ann Rogatschnig, Harald Jedlicka, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, and Richard Record, Brookings)

Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions are being felt acutely by producers and consumers around the world. Many are wondering whether this...

Why is life expectancy so low in Black neighborhoods? (Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, and Anthony Barr, Brookings)

Earlier this year, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) published data showing a 1.5-year decline in national life expectancy in 2020, largely due to the...

Australia’s Indo-Pacific fortunes are in Biden’s hands (Susannah Patton, East Asia Forum)

Australia and China both had diplomatic wins in Southeast Asia this year, particularly through the region’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Both Canberra...

New Caledonian independence still far from settled (Jon Fraenkel, East Asia Forum)

The emphatic 96.5 per cent victory of the anti-independence side in New Caledonia’s referendum on 12 December 2021 has been applauded by many French...

Latin America’s New Lost Decade (José Antonio Ocampo, Project-Syndicate)

The region's economies, taken together, will be the worst-performing of the developing world as they emerge from the pandemic. Paradoxically, the best way to...

East Asia’s Squid Game Economies (Keun Lee, Project-Syndicate)

While South Korea and Japan’s convergence toward Anglo-Saxon capitalism may appear shocking, the data do not lie. But by adopting the right measures, policymakers...

Democracy’s Vital Tasks (Javier Solana, Project-Syndicate)

Rather than emphasizing their ideological differences with other countries, democracies should instead recognize their responsibility to themselves and the world. In particular, free societies...

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