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Strengthening international cooperation on AI (Cameron F. Kerry, Joshua P. Meltzer, Andrea Renda, Alex Engler, and Rosanna Fanni, Brookings)

Since 2017, when Canada became the first country to adopt a national AI strategy, at least 60 countries have adopted some form of policy...

Belarusian-Russian Economic Dependency and Trade Wars: Is There a Contradiction? (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two stories involving Belarus that have been unfolding over the past few weeks appear to contradict each other on the surface. These are the...

Russia’s ‘Re-Exploration’ of Siberia and the Far East: Tools, Plans, Ambitions (Part One) (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

In addition to other notable developments, the Sixth Eastern Economic Forum 2021 (EEF-2021), held on September 2–4, in Vladivostok (see EDM, September 14), unraveled an...

Putin’s Valdai Platitudes Obscure Worsening Domestic Situation (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The annual meeting of the Valdai Club last week (October 18–21) was less pompous than usual, and many foreign guests attended virtually; but Russian...

The Quad’s maritime rule of law hypocrisy (Sourabh Gupta, East Asia Forum)

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) countries are racking up a series of impressive firsts, progressing through to quadrilateral naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal...

Inward investment falters in Japan (Richard Katz, East Asia Forum)

Japan stands apart in a world where most countries seeking to boost growth encourage foreign companies to set up new facilities on their soil...

Clean Energy Has Won the Economic Race (Jules Kortenhorst, Project-Syndicate)

For decades, spectacularly inaccurate forecasts have underestimated the potential of clean energy, buying time for the fossil-fuel industry. But as two new analyses from...

The G20’s Pandemic Wake-Up Call (Masood Ahmed, Project-Syndicate)

G20 leaders must recognize that pandemics are a national and global security threat, and expend some political capital to shift the international health-security machinery...

High Oil Prices Can Help the Environment (Jeffrey Frankel, Project-Syndicate)

As the northern winter draws closer, surging fossil-fuel prices have left many consumers worried. But there may be a silver lining in the form...

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