Geopolitical challenges for next govt · India’s West Asia security dynamics · Myanmar and regional security · Nationalism and democracy .oip
Where industrial revolutions happen can reshape global affairs. Britain’s Industrial Revolution made London the center of an empire upon which the sun never set. The digital age took off in Silicon Valley, making the United States home to world-leading technology companies. But if AI leads to the next industrial revolution, that revolution will have been global from the beginning. And in the most chaotic period in world affairs since at least the Cold War, building the infrastructure to sustain the AI revolution is a geopolitical test that companies and countries alike will need to pass.
“Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure nor so free. The violence of the first half of the 20th century has given way to a period of peace and stability unprecedented in European history.” From today’s perspective, the optimism of the opening paragraph of the 2003 European Security Strategy sounds like something from the distant past. The ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is a daily reminder that peace in Europe cannot be taken for granted any longer.qwer
Crude oil prices plunged by more than 5% before paring losses during the Asian session on Monday, following news that Israel had avoided targeting Iran’s oil or nuclear facilities in retaliation for Iran’s ballistic missile attack on 1 October. Iran’s state media reported that its oil production was functioning normally.vnju