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Building national character based on trauma

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Democratization of finance

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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Transatlantic troubles

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The sound and cost of silence

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Our image of Chinese power

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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Carbon border tax

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The not-so United States of America

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The outdoor economy

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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation

Will old mistakes continue to be made?

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The new power of technical standards

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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys

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The long hegemony of currency

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My plant the therapist

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After work thoughts

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Food nationalism

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Global value chains are experiencing a formative moment

What is Russia's view on climate change?

Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.

The energy transition is not a hobby

With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.

Autocracy and the End of History

Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?

Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens

To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.

Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic

A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.

A cultural cluster bomb

What will be the lasting impact of the cancellation of Russia?

According to the IPCC, we are failing

The IPCC urges us to rethink our climate adaptation and mitigation plans. Can we still be on time to stop the climate from changing?

Dominating the first TikTok war

How the selfie-president and TikTok videos are helping Ukraine dominate social media

Who pays the price for a resilient economy?

Europe is trying to develop a resilient economy that is less reliant on others. Yet, are we willing to the pay the price for our independence?

How will the pandemic affect the future of edtech?

The pandemic has ensured the implementation of edtech in school systems. Will pedagogical or technological aspects be prioritized?