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Beyond MIRVs and SCUDs, the Newest Global Weapon Is ESG
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How Climate Change Could Make Water a Resource Trap Risk
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Coming to Terms with Reality: How Could the European Union Most Effectively Support Venezuela’s Democratization?
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Review: Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (Eds.) Kashmir and the Future of South Asia
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Towards an ASEAN Model for Cooperation in Central Asia
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On Its Pivotal Turning Point: The Prospect of Global Governance Forged by Chinese AI under the Rule of Law
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The United States Should Revive the Arctic Executive Steering Committee
Confucius Corrects The Communist Party
The return of Confucius as a notable figure in the Chinese government's public presentation has been the subject of substantive scholarly discussion. Unlike much of this work, however, the present paper engages two questions difficult to assess within pure academia: how does the government fare when judged from a traditional perspective it now uses to justify its own actions, and what effects, if any, would closer adherence to that tradition have on modern governance?
Blockchain for Governance: Four Use Cases for Encouraging Timely Development and Adoption
The blockchain movement originated as part of a libertarian solution counter to centralized authority. And now, ironically, it is governments that are increasingly interested in the potential of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs). ... Indeed, Blockchain technologies are poised to significantly benefit public services by improving governments' efficiency and transparency. This article argues why and how governments should more boldly pursue the use of blockchain technology as a tool for improved governance outcomes.
China’s Coal-to-Gas Program: A Developing Environmental Governance Regime
Despite the increasing centralization of China under Xi Jinping, SAIS student Yujin Zhang uses the example of China’s Coal-to-Gas program to show that principal-agent problems and competing interests between Beijing and local governments still negatively affect environmental policy implementation. Effective environmental policies require long-term institutional reforms, not short term campaign-style enforcement.