Spillover effects of the U.S.-China rivalry, whether a SCOTUS battle will activate voters, and how foreign actors are messing with politics.
| The shifting chessboard of international influence operations “It’s no surprise that Russia is again interested in influencing the U.S. electoral outcome. What’s different this time around is the chess board of the international system: the actors, their preferred outcomes, and their preferred mechanisms of influence.” Sarah Kreps explains the tools that Russia, China, and Iran have at their disposal to interfere in U.S. politics. Read more |
| How US-China tensions could hamper development efforts Mounting geopolitical tensions between the United States and China are having spillover effects in many different realms, and now they’re starting to affect developing countries. Bruce Jones writes that if the U.S. and China come increasingly to see the developing world as a zone of competition and rivalry, it will be injurious to the development effort as a whole. Read more |
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