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Jamie Metzl

Jamie Metzl

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Jamie Metzl, Founder and Chair of OneShared.World, served on the US National Security Council and in the US State Department during the Clinton administration. He is the author of the forthcoming Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World (Timber/Hachette, 2023).

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  1. Human Success in the AI Age
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    Human Success in the AI Age

    Sep 5, 2023 Jamie Metzl predicts that we will co-evolve with the coming wave of technological disruption, just as we always have.

  2. Japan’s Sensitive Military Normalization
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    Japan’s Sensitive Military Normalization

    Mar 4, 2015 Jamie Metzl says that seven decades of exemplary behavior cannot overcome opposition to a new defense posture.

  3. Back to the Future in Ukraine and Asia
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    Back to the Future in Ukraine and Asia

    Mar 10, 2014 Jamie Metzl says that Russia and China are reenacting nineteenth-century norms of international behavior.

  4. Reinvigorating the US-Japan Alliance
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    Reinvigorating the US-Japan Alliance

    Feb 22, 2013 Jamie Metzl

  5. The Paradox of China’s Reform
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    The Paradox of China’s Reform

    May 18, 2012 Jamie Metzl

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

    traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

    looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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