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Implementing Policies to Reduce Gasoline Powered Cars to Hybrids and EVs
This article discusses the orderly transitions from gas vehicles to hybrid vehicles, and ultimately into EVs.
Pros of Relying on Hybrids First
Resource Efficiency: The raw...
Trump’s Brazil Tariffs: Causing a Pivot to Asia
Trump's economic strategy has widely been tied into the weaponisation of tariffs. The US-China trade war, beginning in 2018 during Trump's first term, culminated...
Why ASEAN Needs an Energy DPI, Not an Energy Bloc
On 22 July, protesters and police clashed outside the Philippine International Convention Center as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended an ASEAN meeting in Manila....
Armenia’s Election Opens the Door to a More Ambitious Partnership with Europe
The outcome of June’s Armenian parliamentary election, in which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party secured re-election, reaffirmed that closer engagement with Europe...
Washington Can Only Resolve Its Defense Production Problem with a Model Shift
In June, President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) to address growing supply-chain bottlenecks and dwindling stockpiles of precision-guided weapons, missiles, and critical...
The Progress Paradox: How Industrial Era Governance is Holding Back AI Era Growth
Introduction:
Over the past decade, though the global venture investment in Artificial intelligence (AI) grew over thirty fold - from $8.3 billion to $259 billion...
The 2027 Grammy Awards: Does It Reaffirm the Dichotomy Between West and Asia?
In recent days, there has been a stir over a major global music event that introduced five new categories at the 69th Grammy Awards...
NATO Defense Industry Forum: What is NATO Procuring with Türkiye?
The irony of geo-political history is that circumstances shift drastically even for a hegemon. Türkiye joined the US F-35 program as a NATO member...
Third ‘Term’ Lucky? Assessing Democratic Backsliding in Trump’s America
President Trump’s periodic mentions of attempting a third presidential run have largely been dismissed as jokes throughout the last decade. Recently, however, these instances...
Cairo’s Shadow War in Sudan: Drones, Borders and a Fading Army Ally
Egypt has moved from rhetorical backing of Sudan’s army to active enabler of its war effort, with a covert drone hub on Egyptian soil...