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Multilateralism is not dying, but it is migrating and being transformed as middle powers pursue creative new forms of cooperation, notes @markhleonard of the @ecfr. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Those voting for right-wing anti-immigrant parties should be careful what they wish for. They may end up expelling their own leaders, Sławomir Sierakowski muses. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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The scariest AI future may not be machines turning against humans. It may be billionaires using their fortunes to harness AI and build a new authoritarian order, argues @Cornell’s @kaushikcbasu. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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While AI optimists and pessimists debate the technology's impact on productivity, @yanisvaroufakis sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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The current thinking around AI risks is familiar to historian Harold James. In the Soviet Union, the justification for Stalinism was that incredible brutality would be a price worth paying for the eventual fruits of rapid modernization. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Europe keeps looking to the US and China for a growth model while overlooking its own greatest economic success, writes @KozminskiUni’s @mmpiatkowski. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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We are not in an interregnum between an American-led order and a Chinese-led one. Instead, we are entering a period in which there is no order to speak of, @ecfr's @markhleonard explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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.@realDonaldTrump has killed the "free world" for the sake of a protectionist idée fixe that will accelerate America’s decline. Europe, Canada, and the democracies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are on their own now, Michael Ignatieff writes. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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The theory that including the far right in government will expose it as incompetent and thereby erode its support has not been borne out, Jan-Werner Mueller warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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In South Korea, youth employment fell disproportionately in industries with high AI exposure in 2022–25, notes Lee Jong-Wha. But plenty of factors other than AI could have contributed to this. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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In his new book, @GordonBrown traces the populist revolt to the loss of good jobs and the hollowing out of the communities built around them. His answer is to revive the civic life that once held democracies together, writes @LSEnews’s Gene Frieda. bit.ly/4rEfX0o
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The rest of Europe now must account for the fact that both France and Germany are operating from a position of domestic weakness, with each threatened from within by its own version of the new nationalism, notes Joschka Fischer. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Many Latin American and Caribbean countries seem to have internalized @IMFNews-style policy discipline without having active IMF programs, @DevEconNetwork’s Martín Abeles observes. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Nobody can win a race whose end no one can understand, and that includes the AI labs sprinting the hardest, @audreyt observes. bit.ly/4h40GB8
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.@JFrankelEcon (@Harvard) argues that US politics is broken not because of inequality, but because people believe different facts. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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In sectors where the principal challenge from China is about competition rather than national security, Europe would be shooting itself in the foot if it replicated US policies, @PennyG_Yale explains. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Political leaders, particularly in Europe, must wake up to the deteriorating situation in the Balkans, where nationalist tensions are high and still rising, @carlbildt warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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As long as AI is used to eliminate wage labor while syphoning off profits from actual markets into our tech lords’ cloud rents, the economic value produced per worker will tank, writes @yanisvaroufakis. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Research by @I_Am_NickBloom, @EricaGroshen, @MichaelRStrain, and Duncan Hobbs finds that the loss of trust in government statistics caused by @realDonaldTrump's firing of the head of the @BLS_gov reduced economic output by roughly $20 billion. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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The @UN’s focus on a “networked approach” and “nimble adaptable” peacekeeping models clearly represents more burden-shedding than burden-sharing, @UPTuks’s Adekeye Adebajo warns. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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