International politics
Climate refugees, international terrorism, peace deals, and geopolitics galore—this page covers the trends and news that will influence the future of international relations.
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CNBC Africa
The world economy is on the brink of the fourth industrial revolution, the hallmarks of which are rapid and unprecedented technological advancements that are...
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https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-force-a-new-american-migration
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Propublica
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-set-to-vote-this-week-on-faa-bill-that-includes-build-act-1537799787?mod=hp_listb_pos2
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Wall Street Journal
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a must-pass piece of legislation that includes a provision that would dramatically bolster American funding of global infrastructure projects, a bid to counter Chinese influence.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ws-UiUhVY
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CaspianReport
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https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/25/is-trading-water-the-next-big-thing-on-wall-street
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Euro News
Wall Street is about to start trading water for the first time
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https://qz.com/854257/brace-yourself-the-most-disruptive-phase-of-globalization-is-just-beginning/
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Quartz
Brace yourself.
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Insight posts
The ongoing space race between the United States and China is on for space supremacy.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/quantum-geopolitics
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Stratfor
The world of quantum physics can provide useful guidance in the forecasting of global events. Forecasting the shape the world will take in several years or decades is an audacious undertaking. There are no images to observe or precise data points to anchor us. We can only create a picture, and a fuzzy one at best. This is, after all, our basic human empirical instinct: to draw effortlessly from th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_migration
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Wikipedia
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/07/metooglobalimpactinternationalwomens-day/
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Foreign Policy
In countries around the world, progress defies the backlash.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/26/data-dump-that-reveals-astonishing-breadth-beijings-interference-operations/
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Washington Post
Beijing is keeping track of everyone who matters around the world.
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CaspianReport
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/connecting-world-through-infrastructure
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Stratfor
Parag Khanna contributed a column to this space earlier this month. His column was excerpted from his book, Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, published April 19. Containing so much more than one piece could relay, the publication of Khanna's book excites me, and in this week's Global Affairs I'd like to share my enthusiasm and the reasons for it.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38130828
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BBC
Japan begins a project to build the world's fastest supercomputer by the end of 2017.
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https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries
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Pew Research Center
Across 14 advanced nations, a median of 61% say China has done a bad job in handling the coronavirus outbreak. And at least seven-in-ten in each of these countries have little or no confidence in President Xi Jinping.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQV_DKQkT8o
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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/330734-cruz-looks-to-boost-space-industry
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The Hill
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at a hearing on Wednesday called for expanding commercial investment in the space industry.
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https://future-economics.com/2015/02/17/internal-chinese-geopolitics/
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Future Economics
How can one measure China’s stability? In the West, it is common to look to Hong Kong and Tibet as litmus tests of the strength of the central Chinese government. While it is true that Hong Kong and Tibet are important places — Hong Kong because it one of China’s major financial and service centres,…
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/what-is-green-infrastructure-and-how-do-we-include-it-in-urban-planning
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WE Forum
Urban planners tend to be wary of green infrastructure, but changing mindsets could bring environmental and social developments.
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https://www.cfr.org/refugee-crisis/index.html#!/a-system-under-strain
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CFR
What is a refugee? A quarter billion people worldwide live outside their country of nationality . One-tenth of them are refugees. While most migrants are fleeing poverty and seeking opportunity, refugees are running from acute threats: barrel bombs in Syria, razed villages in Myanmar, or repression and crime in Venezuela.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/saudi-water-crisis-lurks-beneath-surface
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Stratfor
Riyadh is between a rock and a hard place, and to make matters worse, that rock is drying up.
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https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/08/how-george-floyds-death-reverberates-around-the-world
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The Economist
The unrest in America has cheered its foes and globalised the struggle against racism