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Vietnam – Full steam ahead on Vietnam’s anti-corruption campaign (East Asia Forum)

Hai Hong Nguyen, UQ The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has completed a major reshuffle across the country’s political machinery, including the party apparatus, the...

Productivity Growth/Technologies – How to solve the puzzle of missing productivity growth (Brookings)

Erik Brynjolfsson, Seth G. Benzell, and Daniel Rock Despite the economic damage wrought by the novel coronavirus over the past year, an analysis published by The Economist in December...

Democracy/Local Governments – Want the Summit for Democracy to develop solutions? Include local governments (Brookings)

Patrick W. Quirk and Eguiar Lizundia The Biden administration has committed to organizing a “Summit for Democracy” to galvanize support for combating authoritarianism, fighting corruption so often...

Sustainable Development – Sustainable Development Spotlight: 17 Rooms for the Sustainable Development Goals (Brookings)

John McArthur, senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, explains the “17 Rooms” initiative, a collaborative experiment...

USA – The best defense? An alternative to all-out war or nothing (Brookings)

Michael E. O’Hanlon Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is advocating an approach to national security that he calls integrated deterrence. It is designed to employ the full range of...

Europe – It’s time to reopen to Europe — and not just for tourists (Brookings)

Célia Belin On May 19, the 27 member states of the European Union agreed to reopen their borders to visitors fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as early as...

USA – Why maritime infrastructure is about more than the U.S. Navy (Brookings)

Aaron Klein and Bruce Jones This is infrastructure’s big moment in America. The Biden administration has come out swinging, initially floating a $3 trillion package and while...

USA – Proxy voting turns one: The past, present, and future of remote voting in the House (Brookings)

Molly E. Reynolds, Kennedy Teel, and Jackson Gode On Monday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) once again extended the “covered period” for proxy voting in the House of Representatives, this...

Israel/Palestine – Congratulations on the ceasefire. Now the hard work begins (Brookings)

Tamara Cofman Wittes As I noted last week, it’s well past time to dispel any illusions that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was simmering quietly on a back burner,...

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