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Kevin Kariuki

Kevin Kariuki

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Kevin Kariuki is Vice President for Power, Energy, Climate, and Green Growth at the African Development Bank.

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  1. The Implementation COP
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    The Implementation COP

    Oct 17, 2022 Josefa Leonel Sacko, et al. consider what it will take to make the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference a success.

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    Macron and the Future of Françafrique

    Hippolyte Fofack urges France to abandon its extractive colonial model as it seeks to rebalance relations with the continent.
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    The View from Poland

    Adam Michnik interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Although Russia's war in Ukraine has galvanized Polish society and elevated the country's status internationally, it is also obscuring some worrying domestic political developments. Whether liberal democracy will prevail over reactionary authoritarianism remains to be seen.

    about recent domestic and geopolitical developments that will shape the country's future.
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    Nationalists Abroad

    Ian Buruma

    While facing an uphill political battle at home, Turkey’s recently re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan handily won the diaspora vote. He did so by capitalizing on the resentment and alienation felt by second- and third-generation Turkish immigrants who often feel estranged in the countries where they were born.

    explains how displacement can make expatriates and minorities more susceptible to extremist ideologies.
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    All Talk, No Dialogue on Asian Security

    Richard Maude considers the implications of the complete collapse of defense diplomacy between the US and China.
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    How AI Can Even the Climate Playing Field

    Maxwell Gomera shows how artificial intelligence can strengthen low-income countries' hand in global negotiations.
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    Strengthening the Global Balance Sheet

    Olivia White, et al. outline four medium-term scenarios for the world economy, each implying dramatically different outcomes.
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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.

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