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Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl

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Jamie Metzl, Founder and Chair of OneShared.World, served on the US National Security Council and in the US State Department during the Clinton administration. He is the author of the forthcoming Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World (Timber/Hachette, 2023).

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  1. Human Success in the AI Age
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    Human Success in the AI Age

    Sep 5, 2023 Jamie Metzl predicts that we will co-evolve with the coming wave of technological disruption, just as we always have.

  2. Japan’s Sensitive Military Normalization
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    Japan’s Sensitive Military Normalization

    Mar 4, 2015 Jamie Metzl says that seven decades of exemplary behavior cannot overcome opposition to a new defense posture.

  3. Back to the Future in Ukraine and Asia
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    Back to the Future in Ukraine and Asia

    Mar 10, 2014 Jamie Metzl says that Russia and China are reenacting nineteenth-century norms of international behavior.

  4. Reinvigorating the US-Japan Alliance
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    Reinvigorating the US-Japan Alliance

    Feb 22, 2013 Jamie Metzl

  5. The Paradox of China’s Reform
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    The Paradox of China’s Reform

    May 18, 2012 Jamie Metzl

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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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