International politics

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https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/03/states-disorder
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New Statesman
As the global economy transcends borders and Isis raises its flag, could the very nature of "states" be changing?
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/ai-and-return-great-power-competition
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Stratfor
The artificial intelligence revolution is underway, led by the U.S. and China. The battle ahead over talent, standards and technological dominance will ultimately amount to a contest over political ideology.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/canada-liberal-party-considers-decriminalization-all-illicit-drugs
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The Guardian
The push towards decriminalization comes as the opioid crisis continues to claim thousands of lives on both sides of the 49th parallel
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/leaked-documents-reveal-russian-effort-to-exert-influence-in-africa
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The Guardian
Exclusive: Kremlin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin leading push to turn continent into strategic hub, documents show
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https://www.lifehack.org/articles/money/thinking-emigration-check-out-this-map-living-costs-around-the-world.html
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Life Hack
This infographics that covers living costs in the entire world. If you are considering emigration to another country, you might find it useful.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-migration-202221/
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Rolling Stone
Jeff Goodell reports: Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year and could reshape nation.
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https://www.americanbanker.com/news/fed-plans-to-launch-real-time-payment-service-by-2024
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American Banker
As part of its justification for developing its own government-backed system, the central bank said that leaving only a single fast network run by big banks constitutes a potential risk to the economy.
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https://www.quantumrun.com/qr_dev/verdict-china-making-pakistan-client-state-its-debt-book-diplomacy
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https://www.newclimateforpeace.org/sites/default/files/NewClimateForPeace_all_graphics_png/NewClimateForPeace_Heat%20Map%20-%20-Where%20is%20the%20highest%20risk%20of%20water%20conflict-.png
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New Climate for Peace
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-immigration
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Stratfor
The U.S.-Mexican border is in some fundamental ways arbitrary. The line of demarcation defines political and military relationships, but does not define economic or cultural relationships. The borderlands -- and they run hundreds of miles deep into the United States at some points -- have extremely close cultural and economic links with Mexico. Where there are economic links, there always are move
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https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/welcome-to-the-coherence-economy/
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Sloan Review
A major economic shift is happening — from the experience economy to the coherence economy.
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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://worldview.stratfor.com/article/borders-come-and-go-geography-remains
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Stratfor
Once human beings began to settle rather than wander -- about 10,000 years ago -- our attachment to place transformed. We could grow food. We could build homes, cities and walls. We could set sail from Peru to Polynesia and return to Norway. And we could fight to keep what we had created.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/06/26/memorandum-on-the-partnership-for-global-infrastructure-and-investment/
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The White House
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT:    Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment  By the authority vested
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLzjxDcgho
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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://www.forbes.com/sites/danielaraya/2019/01/01/who-will-lead-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/amp/
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Forbes
Accelerating trends in AI point to significant geopolitical disruption in the years ahead. Much as mass electrification enabled the rise of the United States so AI is poised to transform the global order.
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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://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/global_migration_indicators_2018.pdf
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Publications
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/the-worrying-link-between-climate-change-and-conflict
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CityLab
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https://www.france24.com/en/20200328-france-issues-call-to-buy-french-as-coronavirus-erodes-single-market
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France24
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the Eurozone’s economy, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire issued a rallying cry to the nation’s supermarkets on 24 March: ‘Stock French pr…
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https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/losing-the-leadership-of-the-free-world/
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Macleans
Scott Gilmore: Thirty years ago, it was easy to believe when Reagan said that America was a 'beacon of freedom'. Nobody's buying it today.