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Edoardo Campanella

Edoardo Campanella

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Edoardo Campanella, Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is co-author (with Marta Dassù) of Anglo Nostalgia: The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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  1. Which AI Risks Matter?
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    Which AI Risks Matter?

    Feb 23, 2024 Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications.

  2. Economic Self-Reliance Is a Dangerous Delusion
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    Economic Self-Reliance Is a Dangerous Delusion

    Jan 17, 2024 Edoardo Campanella thinks the push for inward-looking policies will inevitably lead to more global instability and fragmentation.

  3. Managing the AI Backlash
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    Managing the AI Backlash

    Aug 15, 2023 Edoardo Campanella thinks the growing resistance to automation could mirror the practices of the pre-industrial craft guilds.

  4. Europe’s New Energy Map
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    Europe’s New Energy Map

    Apr 18, 2023 Edoardo Campanella traces how the continent’s break from Russian oil and gas has reconfigured the global hydrocarbons market.

  5. Europe’s Next Gas Crisis
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    Europe’s Next Gas Crisis

    Mar 6, 2023 Edoardo Campanella explains how the continent can prepare for an all-but-inevitable supply squeeze.

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    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry's lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has now been exposed and thwarted.

    details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Slavoj Žižek

    If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.

    warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.
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    The Economic Consequences of Legal Behavior

    Kaushik Basu highlights the potential benefits of emphasizing adherence to the spirit of laws, if not their letter.
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    For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First

    Gordon Brown writes that the latest mass abduction of students underscores the dilemma facing parents throughout the country.
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    Give Women with Disabilities a Chance

    Nkechi S. Owoo explains what is needed to protect and empower one of the world’s most vulnerable demographic groups.
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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.

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