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“We Must Not Be Enemies”
In the aftermath of the November elections, progressives should stop asking themselves what went wrong and focus on where to go from here.
Talking to the Muslim World: how, and with whom?
Reining in Private Agents
How Aggressive Is China?
Several policymakers and other experts have called China’s behavior, especially its activities in the South and East China Seas, ‘aggressive.’ This article compares China’s behavior with a suggested definition of ‘aggression’ based on the one enshrined in international law, and it finds that these experts’ use of the term ‘aggressive’ is inconsistent with this definition.
Designing AI Systems that Obey Our Laws and Values
Operational AI systems need to obey both the law of the land and our values. We propose AI oversight systems (“AI Guardians”) as an approach to addressing this challenge, and to respond to the potential risks associated with increasingly autonomous AI systems
The fusion of the private and public sectors
Much of contemporary analysis treats the public and private sectors as two rather separate and fundamentally different realms. Many see one of the two sectors as inherently virtuous and the other as corrupt. The paper shows, in considerable detail, that the two sectors are deeply intertwined. It follows that we need a rather different framework to study state and society.
The Surprising Link between Sustainability and Social Justice
From Partnership to Community
President of Israel Reuven Rivlin is calling for a dialogue among four “tribes” to develop a framework for a society-wide partnership in Israel.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Case Study of Multifaceted Containment
AI Assisted Ethics
Happiness is the Wrong Metric
Transforming the Active Orientation
Defining Down Sovereignty: The Rights and Responsibilities of Nations
Building on the precedent of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) paradigm, and in keeping with a redefinition of sovereignty as a form of citizenship that entails responsibilities as well as rights, the international community should recognize a responsibility of states to curb transnational terrorism that emanates from within their borders.
