The Silicon Conquistadors: Humanity and Digital Colonialism in the Age of AI
We don’t have to wait for AI to develop self-awareness and (perhaps more unlikely) ethical self-control to have a serious conversation about the dangers of this new trend.
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Opinion – A Mitigation Amendment to Keep Paris Alive?
Strategic climate partnerships, or coalitions, must lead the way by sheltering the Paris architecture while inspiring national policies or multi-stakeholder initiatives.
Opinion – Strategic Voids in Global Environmental Governance
Strategic voids in environmental policy need not remain traps; with transparency and commitment, they can become points of collaboration.
Why We Fight: The Rules-Based International Order
There is a need to make sense of the post-World War 2 rules and institutions that stand both as a legacy of colonialism and at the same time a vehicle…
America First, Humanity Second: Trump, MAGA, and American Imperialism Revisited
The most powerful country in the world is dismantling the order it helped create and rekindling old ideas about spheres of influence and regional imperialism.
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Existential Battles: Culture Wars and Real Wars
Since political violence, in particular war, is a quintessential instrument of colonialism, the praeter-colonial mind would be remiss not to inquire into its nature and changing character.
The Haves and the Have-Nots: The West, the Global South, and the Rest
Perhaps it is time to retire the ‘West versus the rest’ framework in a similar way that some have advocated to drop the ‘post-Soviet’ label.
Trilateral Lessons from the 1980s for Today’s Indo-Pacific Challenges
The yardstick of success is an alliance structure between the US, Japan, and South Korea that functions even when friendship falters.
Opinion – Changing Frontiers of Sino-US Technological Competition
The future contest will not only centre on who can build the most powerful chips, but on who can set the rules governing their use and exchange.