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enegal's Foreign Minister Yassine Fall delivers a speech at the ministerial conference of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on September 3, 2024 in Beijing, China.
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What FOCAC 2024 Reveals About the Future of China-Africa Relations

China’s domestic situation and its engagement with Africa indicate a drastic shift in China’s checkbook diplomacy approach.

Two shadowed people shine a bright flashlight on the ground as they walk through a dark night. Dawn breaks on the horizon line
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Overcoming the North-South Divide in Global Migration Governance

Although migration policy trends in Global North and South countries diverge, the two hemispheres both stand to benefit from a more open labor market and more cohesive global migration governance.

  • Alan Hirsch
Europe Economic Statecraft
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Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union

In response to great-power rivalry and the weaponization of interdependence, the EU has adopted a geopolitical approach to economic statecraft. To build resilience and maintain its international credibility, the union will have to balance its pursuit of economic security with broader foreign policy goals.

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Europe Economic Statecraft
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Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union

In response to great-power rivalry and the weaponization of interdependence, the EU has adopted a geopolitical approach to economic statecraft. To build resilience and maintain its international credibility, the union will have to balance its pursuit of economic security with broader foreign policy goals.

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enegal's Foreign Minister Yassine Fall delivers a speech at the ministerial conference of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on September 3, 2024 in Beijing, China.
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What FOCAC 2024 Reveals About the Future of China-Africa Relations

China’s domestic situation and its engagement with Africa indicate a drastic shift in China’s checkbook diplomacy approach.

· November 21, 2024
Two shadowed people shine a bright flashlight on the ground as they walk through a dark night. Dawn breaks on the horizon line
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Overcoming the North-South Divide in Global Migration Governance

Although migration policy trends in Global North and South countries diverge, the two hemispheres both stand to benefit from a more open labor market and more cohesive global migration governance.

  • Alan Hirsch
· November 20, 2024
Aerial view from a drone down to large solar thermal power station in the dry desert landscape to the horizon
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Can the U.S. and China Ease Tensions with a Clean Tech Détente?

To limit the damage from an escalating trade dispute, the United States and China should negotiate a clean tech détente to balance support for domestic industries given the reality of the countries’ economic interdependence.

  • Joshua Busby
  • Jonas Goldman
  • Fabian Villalobos
· November 19, 2024
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Operation Aspides, or the Peril of Low Expectations in Yemen

For the foreseeable future, maritime trade through the Red Sea will remain a hostage to Ansar Allah and Iran. They will likely use this to secure concessions elsewhere.

· November 19, 2024
Europe Economic Statecraft
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Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union

In response to great-power rivalry and the weaponization of interdependence, the EU has adopted a geopolitical approach to economic statecraft. To build resilience and maintain its international credibility, the union will have to balance its pursuit of economic security with broader foreign policy goals.

  • +8
· November 19, 2024
ussia's President Vladimir Putin visits the destroyed school, where in 2004 Chechen militants took more than 1,000 people hostage, in Beslan, North Ossetia on August 20, 2024, to commemorate the killing of more than 330 people, mostly children, in the hostage siege
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How the Traumas of 2004 Blinded Putin

A terrorist attack in 2004 shaped Vladimir Putin’s understanding of external actors and other countries. The influence can be felt even today.

· November 18, 2024
An American Apache helicopter is seen from the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) at the Townsville airport as part of exercise 'Talisman Sabre 23' on July 27, 2023 in Townsville, Australia.
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Alliance Future: Rewiring Australia and the United States

Too many people in Washington and Canberra presume that the strategic challenge from China alone will make defense coordination within the alliance easy. The reality is that it could sharpen contradictions around the kind of operational planning that will be needed to enhance deterrence. Australian and American defense strategies, while closely aligned, are not identical. To build the alliance will require aligning resources, building complementary regional relationships, and investing in resilience.

· November 14, 2024
Photograph of a Norwegian soldier participating in a NATO defense exercise along Norway's border with Russia.
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Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Lessons from the Nordic-Baltic Region on Countering Russian Gray Zone Aggression

A coordinated multilateral response will be more effective than a national one.

  • Minna Ålander
· November 14, 2024
U.S.-South Korea technology alliance
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Building a New U.S.-Korea Technology Alliance: Strategies and Policies in an Entangled World

As the United States and the ROK prepare to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of their security and defense alliance in 2025, forging a durable technology alliance is going to become an increasingly critical element of their cooperation.

· November 13, 2024
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A Tech Policy Planning Guide for India—Beyond the First 100 Days

This compendium provides an independent look at how to get the most out of India’s current technology ecosystem, and the measures that may need to be adopted or re-considered in order to build a lasting and enduring framework for policy changes in the select areas under the current administration.