Governments worldwide will increasingly have to turn to their armed forces to deal with climate-related disasters, requiring new ways of thinking.
While governments have long seen cybersecurity as a national concern, the need to include non-state actors in relevant policymaking is slowly being recognized.
Vasuki Shastry, Associate Asia Fellow of Chatham House in London, offers lessons from the past year and considers what they may portend at the beginning of a new decade.
The US-China trade dispute is much more than a battle over a US$420 billion deficit, what the tensions are really about is a race for “geo-technological” superiority.
Climate change is severely affecting smallholder farmers in Africa, who represent the majority of the agriculture sector across the continent.
Since the Paris Agreement was signed, the world continues to experience extremes of climate change as signatories to the accord struggle to meet their climate goals.
As an archipelagic nation spread over 17,000 islands, Indonesia faces numerous challenges in addressing water supply and sanitation issues.
Time to assess the international community's response to the dramatic increase of forced migrants: Rohingya refugee children attend class in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Shinzo Abe, now Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, is steering Japan across tricky diplomatic waters.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is far more than an instrument of Chinese foreign economic and development policy, argues Mher D Sahakyan
What happens when the Fourth Industrial Revolution collides with the need and desire to improve the state of the world?
With technology advancing rapidly, new applications are disrupting many sectors by solving problems that were impossible or too time-consuming to handle before.
Although cryptocurrencies have been around for about a decade, it was no more than three or four years ago that regulators began to feel intense pressure to catch up.
The Global South, particularly China and other Asian countries, is more active in conflict prevention and resolution
Collaboration between traditional Chinese medicine and the West could offer opportunities to improve healthcare and lower primary care costs
The dangers of connectivity: Are digital technology and the obsession with mobile devices and apps responsible for human cognitive decline?
For the future of work to be inclusive, efforts are required to promote diversity at all stages of the development of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies
While the US president may want to forge an agreement soon to boost his re-election hopes, Xi Jinping is in no rush.
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