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Let’s Work With Latin America to Fight Climate Change
“It will be important for the United States to coordinate on climate change globally, from fast-growing emitters in Asia to resolute partners in Europe. But Latin America is perhaps the best region for the incoming administration to start building alliances” (Lisa Viscidi, 2021).
Donald Trump’s Costly Legacy
“Donald Trump’s presidency has been a consequential one, but more for its destructive effects than for its achievements. The damage caused by repeated attacks on American democracy, an inept pandemic response, and disruptive foreign-policy decisions will be difficult – if not impossible – to repair anytime soon” (Richard Haass, 2021).
Europe’s China Gambit
“The new EU-China agreement underscores a fundamental question of the post-pandemic world order: How should strategic and economic relations between major powers with very different institutional and political arrangements be managed? Can democracies remain true to their values while engaging in trade and investment with China?” (Dani Rodrik, 2021).
Narendra Modi’s Potemkin Democracy
“India's prime minister has an "edifice complex" that has given rise to grand new government buildings, including a planned new parliament. Sadly, the spirit of deliberation and debate that animated the old parliament building risks being left there” (Shashi Tharoor, 2021).
Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan
“This report examines Taiwan’s experience in combatting foreign and domestic disinformation” and how “the methods and tools employed by Taiwan’s government to combat disinformation and foreign interference highlight the strengths of its governing institutions but also the emergent challenges other democracies will confront” (Blanchette, Kennedy, Livingston, and Glaser, 2021).
Response to European Commission Consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence
This paper “makes the argument that “a larger scope of the law will be necessary to incorporate strong measures to regulate and, in some cases, prohibit the use of AI in highly sensitive public functions such as policing, surveillance, immigration or social welfare” (Valenti and Beltrà, 2020).
The Inequality Virus
"The crisis has exposed our collective frailty and the inability of our deeply unequal economy to work for all. Yet it has also shown us the vital importance of government action to protect our health and livelihoods. Transformative policies that seemed unthinkable before the crisis have suddenly been shown to be possible" (Berkhout et. al., 2021).
Fulfilling North America's Promise
This article analyzes how relations between Canada, the USA, and Mexico will develop in light of the arrival of the Biden Administration; discusses the key topics and issues that need to be addressed in North American relations, and proposes policy recommendations.
What Works for Improving Refugee Outcomes in High-Income Countries? Policy Insights for the UK
The authors provide insight from “evidence on the impact of early interventions and related policy changes on the outcomes of refugees in high-income countries” in “four types of policies: the asylum process...job search assistance, language training and changes in social assistance.” (Ruiz and Vargas, 2021)
Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenmarksch campaign
This article examines extremism and polarization by looking at a “demonstration campaign demobilisation” that shows how “anti-far-right activists effectively engaged in a sort of kamikaze counter-mobilisation, seeking to shut down far-right events” that “spurred state authorities to act, imposing coercive measures that demobilised the far-right campaign” (Michael C. Zeller (2021)”.
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