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Keeping the Transatlantic Relationship Alive

WASHINGTON, DC – The confusion sewn by the Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the follow-up summit between Trump and European leaders, including Ukraine, has more than justified the decision taken by NATO’s non-US members to increase defense spending and intensify security cooperation.

An Agenda for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises

Governments, international financial institutions, and civil-society organizations, recognizing the need to tackle today’s debt and development crises, are ready for

Trump’s Alaska Folly

Putin has no reason to prefer Trump’s vision of a beautiful future to his own: a Ukraine with a puppet

The Age of AI Soft Power

AI leaders like OpenAI and DeepMind see themselves as being in a race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI): a

Climate Resilience Is a Strategic Investment

Perhaps more importantly, these shocks are exacerbating unsustainable debt burdens at a time when donor countries are slashing development aid,

Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany

Worse, it was the SPD’s own coalition partner, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), that suddenly shifted from supporting Frauke

The Duty to Protect the Climate

In a David-versus-Goliath moment, the tiny Pacific Island state of Vanuatu recently changed international law forever by bringing the world’s most

Can Democracy Survive AI?

That means the coming AI revolution may render closed political systems more stable than open ones. In an age of

Strengthening Judicial Support for Green Development through the Rule of…

Nepal has actively collaborated with international organizations to promote projects aimed at adapting to climate and natural changes, setting clear

A New Economic Logic for Sustainability

The problem runs deeper than many realize. In the absence of the narrative infrastructure needed to reshape economic logic, all the sophisticated