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The Delicate Art of Natural-Resource Diplomacy

LONDON: Resource competition has long underpinned international relations. But it seems to be taking center stage again, much like the nineteenth-century Scramble for Africa or Western grabs for Middle Eastern oil in the last century. As demand rises for the critical minerals that power the industries of the future, many countries are

What It Means to Build Local AI

But even before OpenAI’s US competitors (Google and Anthropic) released their own LLMs the following year, Southeast Asian developers had

The Attrition of Russia

Putin’s invasion lasts as long as Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet-Afghan War, Russian casualties will be over 55 times greater – and

We are ready to work as a bridge between Nepal…

We know that economic diplomacy is not just about trade— it includes tourism, labor mobility, technology, investment, and branding.

Norway’s Responsibility to Future Generations

The Panel was established by seven civil-society organizations – WWF Norway, Save the Children Norway, Caritas Norway, Framtiden i våre hender (The

The “Washington Effect” Could Decide the AI Race

The Trump administration isn’t favoring red states over blue, or cooperating with European allies to beat China. Instead, it is

Only Democracy Can End Iran’s Nuclear Threat

The regime had plenty of warning signs about its unprecedented weakness at home and isolation in the region. There was

Central Asia’s New Playbook

Though they are not turning their backs on Russia, they are now embracing new opportunities to increase their economic resilience

Work Is Not Well-Being

Effective interventions would include labor policies that ensure adequate incomes and portable benefits even for gig and informal workers; automatic

Accelerating the research in academic institutions of schooling level

Formal measures should be adopted, plagiarism should be avoided in such works, and they should be encouraged. And most of