Chatham House
In conversation with Carlos Alvarado Quesada - highlights
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- In conversation with Carlos Alvarado Quesada - highlights
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- 4:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Winner of the Earthshot Prize, Costa Rican president Carlos Alvarado Quesada discusses the country’s green achievements and how they might be replicated in countries around the world.
President Carlos Alvarado Quesada joins Chatham House during his visit to COP26 in Glasgow. Elected in 2018, President Alvarado Quesada has initiated a series of policies to reduce Costa Rica’s carbon emissions and promote the country’s environmental and social policies beyond its borders.
This year, Costa Rica was named a winner of the ‘Earthshot Prize’ for protecting nature. Its green initiatives have doubled the number of trees and is seen as a role model for others to follow.
This timely discussion considers the key to Costa Rica’s success and how that could be duplicated beyond its borders:
To what extent can countries, such as Costa Rica, build coalitions to reduce carbon emissions and meet international targets?
What are the imm...
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- Party, people, and players: Deconstructing China’s foreign policy - highlights
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- 6:06
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- 5 years ago
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- With the launch of a new briefing paper, hear how the decision-making process impacts Chinese foreign affairs.
Join this event in which experts challenge conventional public wisdom that China is a unitary player in international affairs. Far from being a well-orchestrated process of a single entity, the formation of foreign policy in Beijing is susceptible to skirmishes among central government institutions, provinces and major state-owned companies, each working for their own greater authority and budgetary power.
Increasing complexities in Beijing’s diplomacy leads to the ‘professionalization’ of China’s foreign policy planning and implementation. Central government institutions with domestic policy remits now play a decisive role in determining the country’s wide-ranging and multi-faceted foreign policy agenda. What does this mean for global players and the wider international community?
Read the paper
https://www.chathamhouse....
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- COP26: What to watch - highlights
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- 7:29
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- 5 years ago
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- What to expect when world leaders meet at COP26 in Glasgow.
The COP26 summit, taking place from 31 October to 12 November 2021 in Glasgow, will bring together world leaders to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Here, nations are expected to raise collective ambition on emissions reductions, to deliver more finance for countries disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change and to agree on the processes, guidelines and tools needed to keep global warming to 1.5°C.
Chatham House experts examine the agenda ahead of COP26 and discuss how to achieve a positive outcome:
What are the prospects for COP26 to make concrete progress on decelerating global warming and adapting to the impacts of climate change?
Is keeping global warming to 1.5°C in the next decade achievable?
What are the risks associated with more extreme levels of warming?
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- Interview with Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine defence minister
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- 5:20
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- 5 years ago
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- Oleksii Reznikov reflects on how the international efforts to bring the war in Donbas to an end can be revived and strengthened.
As the current Ukraine minister of defence and the former minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, he outlines what the Ukrainian government is doing to reconnect citizens in the occupied territories with the rest of Ukraine, and what is next for the Crimea platform.
The Ukraine Forum is a Chatham House project bringing together a dynamic group of stakeholders, including politicians, practitioners, civil society leaders, academics and journalists to examine the political situation in Ukraine.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/russia-and-eurasia-programme/ukraine-forum
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- COP26 | High-level dialogue on sustainable trade, climate and nature
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- 2:00:21
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- 5 years ago
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- Chatham House, the TradeHub, UN Environment Programme, and the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), are convening a high-level dialogue at COP26 on how trade and trade policy can support nature positive climate action and sustainable development. Speakers will address three key themes:
• Multilateral approaches and the role of international organisations
• Opportunities for trade ministers to support action on climate mitigation and adaptation
• Stakeholder perspectives on opportunities to align climate and trade agendas and strategies to build cooperation
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- Zambia’s political and economic reform and recovery
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- 1:39:06
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- 5 years ago
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- At this event, HE Hakainde Hichilema, president of the Republic of Zambia, discusses his vision for Zambia’s development and long-term political and economic reform and recovery.
Zambia’s new administration, following the general elections of August 2021, faces a daunting challenge of reversing economic contraction, lowering income-eroding inflation, and addressing the unsustainable national debt.
The country has been one of the few to seek debt restructuring under the G20’s new Common Framework for Debt Treatments, and its immediate priorities include a prospective agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Young Zambians are eager for jobs and improved living standards. But the government’s ambition to create more jobs and achieve middle-income status will depend on both attracting new investment into its copper sector and pursuing a programme of economic diversification supporting growth beyond the mining industry.
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- A meaningful role for young people: Imagine a better world | Explainer | Chatham House
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Short animation examining why young people should have more of a say in world politics.
A world with real youth inclusion would be a world where young people are recognized as leaders, with their priorities and work taken seriously.
To achieve this, there needs to be real inclusion in decision-making as true youth representation must include those most affected to reflect young people’s diverse lived experiences.
All policy should include young people’s concerns and leadership because youth are already transforming the future. So a world can be created where young people make the big decisions.
The SNF CoLab is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/communications-and-publishing-department/snf-colab-imagine-better-world
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- The end of Western intervention?
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- 45:54
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Tracing the history of global North attempts to transform fragile states into liberal democracies, and what this means for the future.
States in the global North have a long history of intervening in other countries, from the numerous US-sponsored regime changes of the Cold War era to the War on Terror in the aftermath of 9/11.
In light of the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the breath-taking speed of the Taliban’s resurgence to power, questions are being asked about the motivations, impact and effectiveness of Western-led statebuilding around the world.
In this webinar, recent International Affairs authors elucidate the history of Western interventions, tracing how the global North has failed to transform fragile states into liberal democracies, and what impact this has on their actions. They reflect on how this failure has influenced more recent interventions, and what it could mean for the future.
Interventions since the C...
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- Is green hydrogen the heir apparent to fossil fuels? - highlights
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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Just ahead of COP26, this event examines critical questions about hydrogen’s future as a source of sustainable energy.
Several innovations are coming online. Last year the UK launched ‘Hydroflex’, a hydrogen powered train, while hydrogen powered generators are being developed and more start-ups are prioritizing hydrogen solutions to meet energy demands.
What is the scope for these innovations to become mainstream, sustainable and affordable?
Is green hydrogen the heir to fossil fuels?
Can hydrogen deliver on a more eco-friendly future provided it is produced without material emissions?
What are its green credentials?
How can hydrogen become more cost-effective for people, communities and nations?
And what is the scope for developing green hydrogen in emerging economies?
This event is part of Chatham House’s ongoing work on Realizing Sustainability.
As with all Chatham House member events, qu...
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- Tackling the skills challenge and regional rebalancing - highlights
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- 3:31
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- 5 years ago
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- At the same time as the climate crisis threatens, the rapid acceleration of technology means 30 per cent of jobs are due to disappear by the mid 2030s.
The role of governments has been reset over the last 20 months. People and society have accepted a high level of government intervention because of the threat from COVID-19.
Tackling the climate crisis will need interventions on a similarly all embracing scale. However, without careful and targeted intervention, the transition from high to low carbon industries risks mirroring the impact wrought by the demise of coal mining and traditional manufacturing in the 1980s.
The scale of these challenges is immense and critical decisions are required to ensure reskilling supports long term growth and regional rebalancing rather than inhibit it.
This conversation with Kevin Ellis, senior partner and chairman of PwC UK, analyses:
What skills does the UK economy need now and in the ...
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- COP26 | Ukraine 2030: Journey to a green transition
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- 1:54:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Examining the global economic outlook, risks, and policy
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- 14:20
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- 5 years ago
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- Creon Butler and Neil Shearing discuss key questions affecting the global economy ahead of the 2021 G20 summit.
As the UK budget – the main annual fiscal event – was just announced and the Chancellor was able to deploy the benefit of faster than previously expected growth to increase real public spending as well as reducing the growth in public debt, how far is this likely to be a general phenomenon among advanced economies, or is this situation unique to the UK?
The prospect of higher inflation globally now seems to be taken as a given, with central banks signalling a sooner than previously expected rise in interest rates. How big is the inflation risk in the short- and medium- term? And is there a risk this approach could kick off an inflation spiral?
The pair also discuss the potential for long-term scarring from the pandemic versus productivity gains from the rapid learning the world has achieved on new ways of working.
Wit...
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- US-Russia relations: Possibilities and limits
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- 1:06:56
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- 5 years ago
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- This event discusses recent dynamics of US-Russian relations and the outlook for the next few years, including the limits and potential opportunities for progress.
The Biden Administration inherited the US-Russian relationship at its worst since the end of the Cold War and possibly earlier. The Biden-Putin meeting in Geneva in June 2021 was an important step toward arresting its decline, but it was clearly not enough to put the relationship on a more positive trajectory.
With a crowded and challenging domestic agenda, and China at the top of the foreign policy agenda, how much progress can the Biden administration achieve toward a more stable and predictable relationship with Russia?
Participants
Eugene Rumer, Senior Fellow and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator: Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Director, US and the Americas Programme, Chatham House
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- Russia’s approach to climate change
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- 1:20:58
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This event explores attitudes towards climate change in Russia, the possible economic and environmental consequences of inaction, and the potential for cooperation.
Russia has been one of the slower countries to act on climate change. Its dependence on carbon-based energy and its inconsistent relationship with the science place the country at odds with much of the international community and its own evidently fragile ecosystem.
Despite the imminent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) driving current international attention, the structure of Russia’s economy suggests that it will continue to struggle in this area, despite oft-heard claims that the protection of the environment is a rare and indeed crucial opportunity for cooperation, transcending political problems elsewhere.
Expert speakers assess the likelihood and scope of any such cooperation when considering how seriously the Kremlin takes climate change, and how success or fai...
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- Pre-G20 high-level panel on universal vaccine coverage
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- 59:16
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- 5 years ago
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- The panel discusses their expectations from the G20 to accelerate vaccine coverage across the world.
The International Monetary Fund has just cut its growth forecast for the world economy, citing COVID-19 vaccine inequity between wealthy and poorer nations as the biggest brake on the global recovery. It also warned that the world economy could suffer a cumulative $5.3tn loss over the next five years unless vaccine coverage gaps are closed.
Despite the clear health, economic and moral imperatives to vaccinate the world quickly and equitably, multilateral action to date has been inadequate. In particular, at the G7 Summit in June wealthy nations made only modest commitments to redistribute vaccines and the recent vaccine summit held before the United Nations General Assembly did little more than agree targets to scale up coverage over the next year.
So now attention is switching to the G20 Summit in Italy at the end of October. Will this be ...
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- The encryption debate: Fighting cybercrime, protecting national security and safeguarding rights
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- 1:16:41
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- 5 years ago
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- This session introduces participants to public key encryption, its benefits to commerce and human rights, and trends towards privacy-enhancing technologies.
Encryption is an area of contention in cyberspace. Highlighting the tensions between privacy and strong encryption this livestreamed discussion will explore key themes in the encryption debate, including access to encrypted content, ‘going dark’ claims by law enforcement, and the benefits and challenges of encryption and privacy laws such as GDPR.
What practical measures exist to enable both privacy and the detection and prevention of serious crime?
What are the benefits and limitations of a tight focus on encryption both as a guarantee of privacy and as a block to law enforcement?
Is it possible for global organizations, when handling requests for encrypted content, to adopt different attitudes towards democratic states that respect human rights on the one hand, and authoritarian states on...
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- Ukraine’s gender scorecard: Key gaps and ways to address them
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- 1:34:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This research roundtable addresses how women can take more of a leading role in making Ukraine a prosperous and peaceful country.
Progress towards gender equality is a key marker of democratic transition. Since its independence, Ukrainian civil society has sought to strengthen the voices and capacities of groups pushing for equality and inclusion.
But Kyiv has a mixed track record on promoting gender balance in politics, ensuring economic empowerment, and protecting health and safety in family life. While economic inclusion is improving, the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2021 ranks Ukraine 103rd in terms of political empowerment for women.
Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine also complicates attempts to overcome the latter’s longstanding structural problems and stereotypes. But it has led to concrete steps in creating new roles for women in the armed forces and boosting post-conflict assistance to veterans and their families.
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- Inequality and the pandemic - highlights
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- 4:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Examining implications of IMF research into pandemic-related causes of rising inequality.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated inequality both within and between countries. Provision of public services that benefit low-income groups such as education and health has been severely disrupted, and job losses concentrated among low-income groups in areas such as entertainment, travel and tourism.
Furthermore, large pre-existing inequalities worsened the effects of the pandemic. The poor have been less able to protect themselves from the virus and its health complications, and inequality could rise further due to scarring on labour markets and large educational losses.
The IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department (IMF FAD) has documented these effects and made far-reaching proposals as to how governments should respond through spending to improve access to more efficient public services paid for by enhancing tax capacity and/or increasing progres...
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- G20: What to watch - highlights
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- 4:29
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Chatham House experts discuss what to look out for at the G20 summit in Rome.
Chatham House experts analyse the forthcoming G20 summit in Rome. As ministers from across the world’s biggest economies come together, representing 80 per cent of global GDP, the panel look at the key priorities for the countries of the G20.
Emerging from the pandemic, multilateralism has never been more sought after to address the shared challenges facing the world. The severity of our collective issues, particularly the climate crisis, and the enormity of the task in remedying them, has highlighted the interconnected era we live in, with local problems swiftly becoming global challenges.
As with all Chatham House member events, questions from members drive the conversation. Attending this event and watching the full event video is for Chatham House members only.
Not a member? Find out more.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/become-member?utm_source=yo...
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- The global trading order: On course or off the rails?
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- 58:18
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- 5 years ago
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- Is deglobalization causing the global trade order to collapse, or is it a result of its decline?
The US has been the leader of the post-WWII international financial and trading order. In recent years emerging economies such as China and India, the 2008 financial crash, and the COVID-19 pandemic, have deeply impacted global economies and their traditional hierarchies.
In this event, experts from International Affairs’ special issue ‘Deglobalization? The future of the liberal international order’ discuss the factors affecting the global trading system and what this means for the world order now and in the future.
How monetary flows will survive COVID-19
https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab089
The WTO crisis and future prospects
https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab109
Participants
Chair: Markus Kornprobst, Political Science and International Relations Chair at the Vienna School of International Studies
Ma...
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- Is the age of globalization over?
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- 1:10:07
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- 5 years ago
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- This webinar explores deglobalization and the implications for the liberal international order.
The world order is changing. We are all more connected than ever before through technology, climate and even viruses. Yet the liberal ideals that characterized global politics in the post-1945 world are fading.
Deglobalizing forces can be seen within liberal states, with the growth of populism and the US’s retreat from the world trading order, as well as outside in illiberal states like Russia and China. With authoritarianism and protectionism on the rise while the urgency of global challenges become ever starker, something must give.
In this webinar, the guest editors of International Affairs’ special issue ‘Deglobalization? The Future of the Liberal International Order’ explore where deglobalization processes are coming from, what effect they are having on geopolitical relations, and how liberal states can respond to current challenges and bu...
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- Intergovernmental organizations and the future of the international order
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- 54:46
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- 5 years ago
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- What will international institutions look like in years to come, and what role will they have in the world order?
Institutions such as the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) are a foundational aspect of the current global order, and continue to spread liberal messages globally, or do they?
Two articles from International Affairs’ new special issue evaluate international organizations as spaces of contestation, where both external threats from illiberal states and threats from within threaten their efficacy.
This forces us to ask: what will international institutions look like in years to come, and what role will they have in the world order?
Authors from ‘Deglobalization? The future of the liberal international order’ discuss this topic, reflecting on how these changes relate to deglobalization.
How international organizations support and undermine the liberal world order https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab1...
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- Future of defence - highlights
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- 5:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. For defence companies, this creates a tremendous challenge to adapt with speed and agility to help confront emerging threats.
How does the defence industry change to adapt to a digitally connected world?
How can connected systems achieve strategic deterrence through networked effects?
What role can industrial partnerships in defence play in addressing the new capability requirements?
And how can national security be bolstered at the grassroots level to pull through future talent?
Artificial intelligence, 5G and other emerging and disruptive technologies are enabling adversaries to target gaps in national security capabilities in the United Kingdom and its allies.
To address these threats, today’s armed forces need enhanced awareness of what is happening in every domain – land, sea, air, cyber and space – so they can make the right decisions quickly and accurately.
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- The US, China and the climate test - highlights
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- 5:08
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- 5 years ago
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- Is it possible to compete for dominance in the world while collaborating to save it?
Climate change is the ultimate test for major powers competing for dominance in the world and also collaborating to save it. The US and China are jointly responsible for 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions and, without them coming together, no meaningful progress can be made.
The evidence so far suggests that conventional diplomacy – a combination of carrot and stick of the handshake and the megaphone – is not succeeding.
Yet all sides know they must act in order to prevent catastrophe not least for their own populations. The most likely triggers for radical change lie elsewhere.
In conversation with several experts, John Kampfner explores how radical change to combat the climate emergency can be galvanized.
Which big power, or which political system, will seize the mantle of the green global citizen?
Which country will ...
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- Which near-term impacts of climate change are most worrying? | Explainer | Chatham House
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- 4:31
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Short animation examining how, within the next decade, climate change will increasingly disrupt lives with climate hazards such as droughts, flooding and wildfires striking harder and more often.
The impacts these hazards have, and the ability to deal with those impacts, depends on the resilience or vulnerability of societies.
These devastating impacts don’t only affect the vulnerable countries first hit. Climate impacts can cascade across nations and borders: creating conditions for conflict, disrupting international trade and financial markets and forcing people from their homes.
The cascading impacts of climate change are difficult to predict, but the vulnerabilities that can start such chains of effects are already a daily reality for many people.
To limit the damage of accelerating climate change, it is vital to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable.
Read more about this work
https://www.chatha...
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- Which near-term climate impacts are most worrying? | Explainer | Chatham House
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- 5:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This short video explainer outlines how, within the current decade, climate hazards are expected to have increasingly serious disruptive impacts.
While many hazards may now be inevitable, action on adaptation has the potential to limit the worst expected climate impacts, at regional and global levels.
The impacts of greatest concern are food security, migration, and displacement of people which may arise from hazards such as drought, changing rainfall patterns, or heatwaves.
Impacts will be greatest where communities are already most vulnerable, but will also set off interacting, compounding cascades of secondary impacts that cross borders and continents.
That ‘no one is safe until everyone is safe’, often repeated during the COVID-19 pandemic, is just as critical in relation to climate hazards.
Between now and 2030, support for adaptation measures to address socio-economic vulnerabilities in the most at-risk regi...
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- The COVID charter
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- 1:09:32
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Dr Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in conversation with Dr Robin Niblett outlines how a new COVID charter is the development model the world in crisis needs.
Amid the gravest crisis since World War II, the world has the opportunity to unite behind a COVID Charter and a series of bold actions to prevent a future crisis.
On the road to COP26, the United States and the rest of the world have the ability to take the necessary steps to vaccinate the entire world, prevent future pandemics and reduce the consequences of climate change.
What steps the United States and other nations must take to implement a COVID charter?
What, if any, institutions would be created from a COVID charter?
How would a COVID charter ensure developing countries keep up with vaccinating their populations?
Participants
Speaker: Dr Rajiv Shah, President, Rockefeller Foundation
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director & ...
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- Non-state hostage-taking - highlights
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- 3:09
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Examining challenges, dilemmas, and practical solutions.
Kidnapping has long been used as a tactic by criminals, pirates, separatist groups and terrorists to generate income, publicity or political concessions: the Shining Path in Peru, FARC in Colombia, pirates off the coast of Somalia, criminal gangs in Nigeria, and terrorists, such as ISIS and Al Qaeda, across the Middle East.
Our panel investigate, analyse and discuss questions including:
What is the nature and scale of non-state kidnapping globally?
What works in tackling these cases?
What are the key differences in response between criminal and terrorist cases?
Is the outlawing of ransom payments – such as is being considered currently by Nigeria – effective?
What can we learn from other countries that have tried this, such as Colombia and Italy?
Can governments learn from the market in kidnap and ransom insurance, which apparently has greater rates of retur...
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- Affordable clean energy for all: Imagine a better world
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Short animation examining what is needed for a clean energy transition.
From the cars we drive to the food we eat, most elements of society rely on energy that comes from coal, oil, and natural gas.
By burning fossil fuels, we are releasing harmful emissions causing our climate to change at unprecedented speed.
And we are already experiencing more severe and more frequent weather events, including storms and heatwaves, that are contributing to poverty, displacement, hunger and conflict.
A rapid transition towards clean energy such as solar and wind is vital to avoid runaway climate change. And there are some promising signs.
The SNF CoLab is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/communications-and-publishing-department/snf-colab-imagine-better-world
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- Chatham House Centenary Lifetime Award - Sir David Attenborough (speech and closing remarks)
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- 9:14
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Join one of the most compelling voices on biodiversity loss and climate change, and Chatham House Centenary Lifetime Award winner, Sir David Attenborough.
As part of the institute’s centenary celebrations, the staff of Chatham House awarded our Centenary Lifetime Award to Sir David Attenborough, recognizing his tireless commitment to conservation and raising public and political awareness of the growing climate crisis.
Sir David has pioneered the way in which we experience and understand life on this planet. He and his team have brought the wonders of the natural world to us through ground-breaking documentaries and most recently, his work has sounded the alarm on humanity’s devastating impact on the environment.
At this special hybrid event Sir David Attenborough is presented with the award in front of an audience of staff, members and supporters both online and in person for a celebration of his work and achievements.
The award ...
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- What deters Russia? - highlights
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- 4:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- This event explores what lessons can be taken from past responses to Russian hostile actions and suggests recommendations for effective deterrence.
Driven by misguided perceptions that it is in conflict with the West, Russia continues to use a variety of state and non-state levers of power to harm Western governments, societies and people which have become progressively more unchecked and damaging.
In recent years, Western responses have repeatedly failed to deter this behaviour. Although attempts to avoid conflict are unable to dismantle Moscow’s misguided notions of hostility, it is possible to influence the actions and behaviours that drive its policy implementation.
This event highlights key recommendations for effective deterrence against Russia from the new Chatham House paper ‘What deters Russia?’. The speakers explore these through analysis of past responses, successful or not, to Russian hostile actions.
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- Who controls the internet? - highlights
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- 4:15
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- A panel including Dame Wendy Hall and Sir Jeremy Fleming, Director GCHQ, discuss the geopolitics of internet governance with other leading experts.
The internet shapes contemporary politics. The balance of power between governments, corporations and civil society will determine the future of the open internet as each is vying for a version of the web that follows its values and vision.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the internet as a critical infrastructure for governments, organisations and individuals to work together. At the same time accelerated digital transformation is putting pressure on cohesive internet governance and security. But despite its growing influence, the internet is not as stable as it may appear.
The panellists discuss the geopolitics of governing cyberspace and the difficulty of balancing social and cultural differences around internet use.
There are many different political views of ho...
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- Chatham House Centenary Diversity Champion Award - Melina Abdullah
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- 1:34:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, and leading experts discuss the fight for racial equality in the 21st century.
As part of Chatham House’s centenary celebrations, the staff of Chatham House have awarded its Centenary Diversity Champion Award to the Black Lives Matter movement.
At this special hybrid event Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement and co-director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, accepts the award on behalf of the movement in front of an audience of staff, members and supporters both online and in person.
A panel of experts also discuss how the movement has brought global attention to systemic injustice against black lives and is helping to draw on more diverse voices and inclusive approaches to shape the policy agenda.
How can grassroots racial justice and equality movements influence policymaking?
How can policymakers, civ...
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- What deters Russia? - full event
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- 1:15:53
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- This event explores what lessons can be taken from past responses to Russian hostile actions and suggests recommendations for effective deterrence.
Driven by misguided perceptions that it is in conflict with the West, Russia continues to use a variety of state and non-state levers of power to harm Western governments, societies and people which have become progressively more unchecked and damaging.
In recent years, Western responses have repeatedly failed to deter this behaviour. Although attempts to avoid conflict are unable to dismantle Moscow’s misguided notions of hostility, it is possible to influence the actions and behaviours that drive its policy implementation.
This event highlights key recommendations for effective deterrence against Russia from the new Chatham House paper ‘What deters Russia?’. The speakers explore these through analysis of past responses, successful or not, to Russian hostile actions.
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- Chatham House Centenary Lifetime Award - Sir David Attenborough (full event)
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- 1:05:56
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Join one of the most compelling voices on biodiversity loss and climate change, and Chatham House Centenary Lifetime Award winner, Sir David Attenborough.
As part of the institute’s centenary celebrations, the staff of Chatham House awarded our Centenary Lifetime Award to Sir David Attenborough, recognizing his tireless commitment to conservation and raising public and political awareness of the growing climate crisis.
Sir David has pioneered the way in which we experience and understand life on this planet. He and his team have brought the wonders of the natural world to us through ground-breaking documentaries and most recently, his work has sounded the alarm on humanity’s devastating impact on the environment.
At this special hybrid event Sir David Attenborough is presented with the award in front of an audience of staff, members and supporters both online and in person for a celebration of his work and achievements.
The award ...
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- United States competitiveness and the future of technology governance
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- 1:03:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- US president Joe Biden has emphasized his priority to improve the US’s competitiveness through supporting entrepreneurship and education at home as well as investing in research and development.
How does technology interact with Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ strategy and his goal of showcasing the benefits of ‘democratic capitalism’’ as an alternative to China’s model of ‘authoritarian capitalism’?
What potential is there for the US to lead on new technology governance strategies and to what extent is US leadership compromised by existing gaps between tech policy in Washington and tech innovations in Silicon Valley?
What governance approaches are preferred, from the point of view of technology companies, consumers, and advertisers?
Participants
Eric Schmidt, Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Former CEO & Chairman, Google
In conversation with: Fred Hochberg, Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States (2009-17)
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- Policy for Recovery in Africa: Vaccine access and manufacturing
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- 1:35:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- African countries appeared more resilient to the immediate health impact of COVID-19 than many other parts of the world. However, lack of access to critical vaccines will likely mean that the continent lags behind other regions in inoculation against COVID-19.
According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent has received over 137 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, with supply coming from the Covax global vaccine-sharing scheme, bilateral donations and, recently, the African Union.
Whilst 75 per cent of this supply has already been administered, this translates to only 4.85 per cent of the continent’s population having received their first dose, with just 2.93 per cent fully vaccinated.
This event discusses the key issues confronting African governments in gaining access to vaccines. In particular, it will explore the policies, financial capital, international support, and regional cooperation required for developi...
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- Angola Forum 2021: Policy options to support economic recovery in Angola
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- 3:16:56
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- 5 years ago
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- The Government of Angola has made some progress on a range of policies targeting macroeconomic stability and structural reform. However, the country has been suffering from a recurring economic recession for six consecutive years, with the last positive annual GDP growth rate posted in 2015 at 0.9 per cent.
The national budget remains dependent on oil revenue, leaving the country highly exposed to volatile oil prices particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. While revenues collapsed, increased spending was needed to respond to the health crisis and estimates of Angola’s debt spike range from 130 to 150 per cent of its GDP by the close of 2020.
At this virtual Angola Forum, speakers will discuss policy options to support economic recovery in Angola as the country transitions away from a state-led oil economy to a private-sector-led growth model.
The Forum will launch the English translation of the Angola Economic Report 2019-20 by the Centro de...
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- Memory politics: the challenge of commemoration in post-Soviet Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
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- 1:31:19
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- 5 years ago
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- This event explores how to address memory and commemoration in the former Soviet states, considering their role in political processes and violent conflict.
How the past is remembered and commemorated plays a large role – perhaps too large – in contemporary political debates and in how conflicts are negotiated. Perceptions of history influence people’s actions and are used to judge or dismiss the actions of others.
Nowhere is this more so than in the political, territorial and social debates and disputes across the former Soviet Union.
This event examines how to address the problems caused by entrenched memory debates – and proposes a framework for ‘ethical political commemoration’ for use across historical enquiry, political processes, and conflict transformation initiatives.
The speakers explore the topic through the context of Turkey and the Armenian genocide, as well as more broadly through their own experiences in...
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- Local power dynamics in coastal Syria | Explainer | Chatham House
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- 2:27
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- 5 years ago
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- Watch this short animation explainer examining the socio-economic impact of conflict on local power dynamics in coastal Syria, especially in Tartous and Lattakia.
The number of unemployed in both Tartous and Lattakia is five times higher than in 2010, with productive sectors such as agriculture and tourism destroyed.
Now around 85 per cent live below the upper poverty line, while almost 40 per cent of households suffer from food insecurity.
Conflict-related activities provide employment for around half the households with one or more members working, and the conflict has created a six-fold increase in dependency on remittances, as well as a high dependence on loans.
It has also left the population with poor access to services such as electricity, transportation, and drinking water, and without basics such as fuel and cooking gas.
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- COVID-19 and the future of international politics
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- 1:06:28
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- 5 years ago
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- Discussion on the consequences of the pandemic for cooperation and competition in the international system.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was much discussion about a ‘return of great power politics’ and in particular the increasing strategic competition between China and the US as the new dynamic of international politics.
The pandemic created a demand for greater cooperation, which is also urgently needed to respond to the global challenge of climate change. But COVID-19 seems to have intensified what Joe Biden has called ‘extreme competition’ between China and the US.
The pandemic has also created particular challenges for democracies, which increasingly see themselves in a struggle with authoritarianism.
This webinar brings together three leading thinkers, each of whom has written a book exploring the consequences of the pandemic for the global system. They discuss if COVID-19 has transformed international poli...
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- Governance in space - highlights
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- 4:33
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- 5 years ago
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- What is ahead on the next frontier of governance? This event looks at the intricate landscape of governance in space.
Earth’s orbit is a common pool resource without a central authority controlling who is doing what. This results in a serious governance and collective action problem that some refer to as the ‘Wild West’.
SpaceX gets a lot of attention in this debate as they have acquired more than 25 per cent of the 9,000 satellites in Earth’s orbit, but there are more than 1,500 ‘space actors’ involved, from more than 200 countries, the vast majority of which are for-profit entities.
Participants consider:
What are the most pressing challenges to outer space security?
Is there an agreement on what are the rules and norms governing outer space and what if they are not abided by?
How has the increased presence of the private sector in space changed outer space governance?
Does current global space governa...
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- The 2021 election: Germany after Merkel - highlights
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- 3:57
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- 5 years ago
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- Will anything change after Angela Merkel leaves office?
In September Germans will head into an election without Angela Merkel on the ballot paper for the first time in 16 years.
As Europe emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, and facing a range of economic and political challenges, there has been much hope and expectation of a radical shift in German economic and security policy.
But the two most likely chancellors, Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz, have both positioned themselves as continuity candidates who will not break dramatically with the consensus that has defined the Merkel era.
As post-election coalitions negotiations begin the day after the election, this members’ event discusses topics including:
What will be the new administration’s key priorities?
Can we expect change in Germany’s foreign policy – especially in relation to China and Russia?
How will the new German government position itself a...
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- The future of Europe post-Brexit - highlights
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- 4:06
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- 5 years ago
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- In conversation with Michel Barnier, Chief Brexit Negotiator, EU (2016-2019).
Drawing on the diary he kept during the 1600 days of complex and acrimonious Brexit negotiations, Michel Barnier explores the political and practical implications for Europe post Brexit.
Britain’s departure from the European Union has been a long and difficult journey. Many questions remain about what future lies ahead for the UK and EU and the relations between them.
To what extent were UK negotiating positions shaped by politics within the ruling Conservative government?
How did domestic politics in EU member states shape EU positions?
What were key turning points in the negotiations?
What are the hopes and expectations for bilateral relations between the UK and EU states?
What is the scope for UK – EU cooperation on transatlantic issues and relations with China?
This event forms part of Chatham House’s ongoing work on Effe...
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- Germany’s Russia policy in the post-Merkel era
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- 1:25:08
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- 5 years ago
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- With relations between Berlin and Moscow at their lowest ebb since Cold War days, what is the outlook for Germany’s Russia policy after Merkel’s departure?
History overshadows Germany’s relations with Russia, greatly complicating Berlin’s efforts to design effective policies to manage the challenge posed by Russia to Europe’s stability.
After 1991, Germany focused heavily on ‘soft’ power by promoting people-to-people contacts and encouraging trade.
Grateful for Moscow’s blessing of reunification and anxious to avoid confrontation, German policymakers ignored Russia’s drift to authoritarianism, the latter’s growing confidence fuelled by high commodity prices and its gradual alienation from Europe.
Confrontation was inevitable once Russia no longer felt bound by the security principles that ended the Cold War. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was a deep shock to the German elites.
It caused a s...
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- WTO Public Forum 2021: Trade beyond COVID-19 - building resilience
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- 1:01:41
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- 5 years ago
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- What role can TRIPS waivers for health commodities play in tackling pandemics?
The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted immense harm to health and economies worldwide. Vaccination offers a way out of the pandemic, yet production of vaccines and other health products has been insufficient to meet unparalleled global demand.
In this context, momentum has built behind a waiver of provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to address intellectual property barriers affecting the scale-up of production of health commodities.
This session is organized by the Centre of Universal Health as part of the WTO Public Forum. It will examine the debate surrounding TRIPS waivers as a mechanism to expand the supply of health commodities: how has TRIPS historically operated in health crises, how might waivers be used to expand production in a pandemic, and what might the downsides be?
It will also c...
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- State power over citizen data post-pandemic - highlights
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- 6:38
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- 5 years ago
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- Returning individual freedoms and data privacy after the coronavirus crisis.
Of the vastly expanded government power to fight COVID-19, digital surveillance has moved to the forefront. Whilst lockdowns, testing, quarantines, and limited travel are some of the freedoms suspended to stop the spread, it is digital rights that are troubling many.
Citizens have endured extensive digital intrusion conducted in the name of public health. From contact tracing and government apps to venue check-ins and enhanced medical data, questions regarding the state and digital liberty are rising.
States have accrued substantial amounts of data to combat the virus. How this data will be used and stored worries data privacy advocates. But as vaccinations continue apace and economies reopen, have the boundaries of state intervention in the digital sphere shifted?
This members event asks:
After extensive tracking and monitoring, is individu...
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- 9/11 and China - highlights
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- 3:27
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- 5 years ago
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- Panellists examine the legacy of 9/11 and China, and China’s counterterrorism strategy in the Middle East and South Asia.
20 years on from 9/11, how did China’s security and economic agenda, particularly in terms of counter-terrorism work, evolve in the Middle East and South Asia, particularly Afghanistan?
How does the US withdrawal from Afghanistan impact China’s engagement in the region?
What do recent developments mean for China’s ‘counterterrorism’ claims in Xinjiang?
9/11 coincided with the rise of China and an improvement in US-China relations as China supported the war on terror, the invasion of Afghanistan and provided increased intelligence sharing. Thus, China was able to step up its own counterterrorism agenda against domestic opposition groups including Uyghur separatists without US interference.
US withdrawal from Afghanistan has led China to reassess its relationship with the Taliban, hosting a senior d...
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- Advanced military technology in Russia | Explainer | Chatham House
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- 3:48
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Military technology innovation enables Russia’s way of war and informs new concepts of operation and military thought around future warfare, especially asymmetric advantages against more powerful competitors.
New weapons systems, dubbed Putin’s superoruzhie (‘super weapons’) and first unveiled in 2018, signal Russia’s intent to innovate in the defence-industrial field to counter the perceived conventional military superiority of great power competitors such as the US and its NATO allies.
The authors of a new research paper offer an overview of Russia’s modern military capabilities and advanced technologies in key sectors, discussing the effects of military innovation on Russian military thinking and impacts for the US, NATO, and their partners.
Read the paper
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/advanced-military-technology-russia?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=russia&utm_content=military-technology
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- What deters Russia | Explainer | Chatham House
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- 3:56
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- 5 years ago
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- Russian attitudes to the West cannot be altered, because they are based on deeply ingrained notions of hostility that will not be swayed by Western attempts to avoid conflict.
But the actions and behaviours by which Moscow seeks to implement that policy can be influenced – and there are successful examples of this throughout both recent and more distant history.
In this video, Keir Giles offers key principles and recommendations for effective deterrence.
Read more research on this topic:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/what-deters-russia?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=russia&utm_content=russia-deterrence
