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    Building the Green-Recovery Consensus

    Lolwah Al-Khater & Brian Finlay urge the international community to adopt a shared roadmap for sustainable socioeconomic development.
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    Will Ukraine's Tragedy Spur UN Security Council Reform?

    Kemal Derviş & José Antonio Ocampo argue that a mechanism for overturning permanent members’ vetoes would make the organization more effective.
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    Southeast Asia's New-Old Cold War

    Thitinan Pongsudhirak explains why the region will once again be a major theater of superpower confrontation.
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    A Whiff of Munich

    Harold James considers the historical parallels between 1938 and the latest conflict between Russia and the West.
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    Africa Cannot Afford a Second Cold War

    Hippolyte Fofack warns that rising Sino-American tensions could lead to further lost decades for the region.
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    The Drums of War in Taiwan and Ukraine

    Carl Bildt thinks Chinese and Russian saber-rattling should be viewed as part of a broader strategic threat.
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    Five Visions for a New International Order

    Ana Palacio assesses world leaders' views on the future of global rules and cooperation.
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    NATO's Responsibility to Save Afghans

    Edi Rama argues that the Alliance must not abandon those who believed in and worked with it.

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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.
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    Social Media as It Should Be

    Robin Berjon explains how the Bluesky model could restore the original promise of the internet.
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    Trump’s Greenland Grab

    Carl Bildt

    Now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, he believes that it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to have “ownership and control” of Greenland. But as an autonomous Danish territory where the US military already operates, Greenland has no reason to abandon its current political arrangement.

     explains why the US president-elect's threats to seize the Danish territory are so dangerous.
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    Joe Biden’s Disappearing Legacy

    Richard Haass thinks the outgoing US president got some big things mostly right and some big things mostly wrong.
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    AI Alone Won’t Save the Planet

    Yana Gevorgyan calls for an “augmented intelligence” that combines algorithms with human knowledge and lived experience.
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    Will US Democracy Survive Trump?

    Koichi Hamada considers the tactics that enabled the president-elect to push America toward autocracy.
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    Can Trump Dump the Dollar?

    Barry Eichengreen

    US President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration will likely seek to weaken the greenback's exchange rate. But whether doing so would enhance the competitiveness of US exports and strengthen America’s trade balance is another matter.

     argues that while the incoming administration could certainly weaken the greenback, the US would not benefit.
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    A No-Brainer for Global Growth and US Jobs

    Joseph E. Stiglitz & Mark Weisbrot

    With global growth slowing and many developing countries facing debt crises, the world needs another infusion of the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset. But while the benefits would be far-reaching and free of risk, the US Treasury has been standing in the way.

     call for a new issuance of the International Monetary Fund’s international reserve asset.
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    What Will Trump Do to the US Economy?

    From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.

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