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Graham Allison, Professor of Government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

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  1. Is China Winning the AI Race?
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    Is China Winning the AI Race?

    Aug 4, 2020 Eric Schmidt & Graham Allison worry that too many Americans are convinced, wrongly, that US technological supremacy is unassailable.

  2. The Case for Secret Diplomacy
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    The Case for Secret Diplomacy

    Apr 26, 2018 Graham Allison thinks Secretary of State-Designate Mike Pompeo was right not to disclose his North Korea assignation.

  3. The Conscience of a Conservative?
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    The Conscience of a Conservative?

    Nov 3, 2017 Graham Allison laments that a Republican senator's response to threats against US democracy is simply to quit.

  4. Optimizing Decision-Making in a Dangerous World
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    Optimizing Decision-Making in a Dangerous World

    Sep 4, 2017 Graham Allison & Arianna Huffington argue that today's global problems require not just action, but deep and careful consideration.

  5. Lee Kuan Yew’s China
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    Lee Kuan Yew’s China

    Feb 25, 2013 Graham Allison, et al.

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    China’s Abandoned Illusion of High Growth

    Zhang Jun places the central government’s falling GDP targets in the context of its new economic-policy priorities.
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    What Will It Take to Prevent Future Pandemics?

    William A. Haseltine calls for new detection and surveillance methods focusing on the four essential properties of zoonosis.
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    Banning China from Owning US Farmland Will Achieve Nothing

    Nancy Qian explains why preventing other countries from buying agricultural land will not help American food producers.
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    The Pitfalls of Dollar Hegemony

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    The past half-century of US and global economic history is a massive topic that cannot possibly be covered in any single telling. Nonetheless, any adequate account must include the global preeminence of the US dollar as a means of payment and store of value linking all economies together.

     shows why no modern national economy, least of all the United States, can be understood in isolation.
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    William H. Newton-Smith, 1943-2023: The Adventurous Life of a Maverick Philosopher

    Ben Rawlence remembers Bill Newton-Smith, an academic and activist who also helped found Project Syndicate.
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    A Bank Murder Mystery

    Barry Eichengreen examines the four main suspects that have emerged in explanations of the recent US financial turmoil.
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    The World Bank in a New World

    Wempi Saputra, et al. explain what the organization and its members must do to promote a sustainable and inclusive future for all.
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    Into the AI Abyss?

    People around the world have been feverishly engaging with OpenAI’s ChatGPT for months, yet we have barely scratched the surface of what generative artificial intelligence can do. Its capabilities are widely expected to transform our economies and societies, though there is far less agreement that the changes will be for the better.

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    Mitigating the Debt-Climate Trade-off

    Hippolyte Fofack touts nature-based financial instruments as a way for fiscally constrained countries to address global warming.

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