More than thirty years after the proclaimed "end of history" and the third wave of democratization, the world is once again marked by increased diversity in political regimes. The (re-)emergence of powerful authoritarian states like China and Russia and the trend of backsliding in seemingly consolidated democracies have created a more pluralistic and multipolar world, in which states with different political regime types increasingly view each other as competitors, seeking to prove the superiority of their own political and economic systems and to win the allegiance of third countries. Author information
Pascal Abb
Dr. Pascal Abb ist Koordinator der Forschungsgruppe "Regimewettbewerb" und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der HSFK mit Schwerpunkt China. Er betreibt aktuell ein Forschungsprojekt zu den Auswirkungen der Belt-and-Road-Initiative auf Konfliktstaaten. // Dr Pascal Abb is Coordinator of the Research Group "Regime Competition" and Senior Researcher at PRIF with a focus on China. He is currently conducting a research project on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on conflict states.
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Der Beitrag Regime Competition in a Fragmented World: Consequences for Peace and Conflict erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.
In the Philippines a large number of politicians and candidates are killed before, after and between elections. Against the backdrop of the constants and changes of this violence, I outline why a way out is not in sight and why several dozen dead incumbents and candidates can again be expected in the coming late October elections for Barangay (village municipal ward) leadership position. Author information
Peter Kreuzer
Dr. Peter Kreuzer ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektleiter am PRIF. Sein Fokus liegt auf politischer Gewalt in den Philippinen und maritimen Konflikten im Südchinesischen Meer. // Dr Peter Kreuzer is a Senior Researcher at PRIF. He focuses on political violence in the Philippines and maritime conflicts in the South China Sea.
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Der Beitrag Violence in Political Competition in the Philippines: The 2023 Barangay Elections in Perspective erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.
This looks like good news: All those stories foretelling a shortage of critical minerals seemed to assume that miners sit on their hands and that technology is static. The greater likelihood is a glut.There are already as many solar panel factories as could possibly be needed this decade. Hence the drastic deflation in solar prices. Panels are today being flogged in the Global South at $120 per kWp, tantamount to free power. Try selling them a new coal plant without a bribe.Well, yes, we've been known to push that likelihood of a minerals glut ourselves. Lithium mines are already on care and maintenance basis as prices are so low (Core Lithium for example) and cobalt mines aren't opening on that same price basis (Jervois). We've also been known to mutter over the decades that if solar gets cheap enough then the problem becomes solved. Yes, intermittency is still a problem but if electricity is cheap enough - with a lot of emphasis on enough - then all those dreams of batteries, of hydrogen from electrolysis to fuel cells, or Fisher Tropsch up to petrol and so on, become economically possible. Now, which might win out, even whether any will, we don't pretend to want to plan. We're of the market school, recall? Let people try everything and we'll all do more of what works once it has been shown to work.However, there's also this: The West has woken up to the technology threat from China, pulling slightly ahead last year with combined capex spending of $718bn on clean tech and the mineral supply chain. Clean capex rose 38pc in Europe, reaching $341bn in the EU and to $74bn in the UK – more than France ($56bn), or Italy ($30bn), which might surprise some."It is simply a technology battle at this point. There are three key races in clean tech and China is winning all of them," said Kingsmill Bond from the Rocky Mountain Institute."The US and Europe are massively behind but last year was the year they got back into the game. There is an exponential growth story taking place across the leading regions and sectors of the world," he said.We're not understanding this "technology threat".Those folks who have invested massively in solar factories are having to slash their prices because so many people entered that race. So, they're all losing money on those slashed prices. Why would this be a race we'd want to enter? The competition to see who can lose the most money through industrial overcapacity? We also can't see it as a threat. Someone is now willing to sell us stuff below the cost of production? Sounds good to us, will they sell us two d'ye think? What is this technological race and why do we want to lose money entering it?
Amid the flurry of other regulations currently being developed by the US Department of Education are changes to the federal recognition of college and university accreditors. These revisions in particular deserve more attention than they have received. The post Promote Competition to Provide a Path to Meaningful Higher Education Accountability appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
US corporations are having to increasingly juggle concerns of data privacy and human rights alongside profit margins and growth in their dealings with China. Disney looks to be the latest, but certainly not the last, corporation to adjust its expectations amid US-China great power competition.
The internet, once an open frontier, is again at the center of a contentious debate over regulatory approaches, thanks to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to once again impose its Title II authority on broadband providers. The nearly 30 year debate has been marked by partisan contention and regulatory oscillations. From a hands-off strategy […] The post Competition—Not Net Neutrality Regulations—Should Determine the Future of Broadband appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
As part of a project on U.S.-South Korea-Japan trilateral cooperation on economic security, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP) at Brookings hosted a workshop with experts from these three countries on April 25, 2023. The session focused on technology competition with China and prospects for trilateral coordination on export controls. Mireya Solís, director…
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is America's biggest and most significant national policy geared toward combating climate change. The legislation provides an estimated amount of $300 billion worth of subsidies over the next decade to stimulate a low-carbon transition and to onshore renewable energy manufacturing. While it is a significant achievement to bring renewable energy…
In 2023, the Phelan US Centre ran an essay competition for master's students with the prompt, "What responsibility does the US have to the rest of the world on climate change?". In this Extra Inning, we speak to the author of the winning essay, Oscar Parry, and the runners-up, Jibran Raja and Alia Yusuf. We … Continued
The LSE Phelan US Centre’s Capitalism Essay Competition asked LSE Master’s students to address the question, "How should the United States work to shape the future of capitalism in this age of insecurity?” In this runner-up essay, Manickam Valliappan writes that rising inequality is a clear signal that there are defects in capitalism that warrant … Continued
Pentagon leaders continue to prioritize short-term temporary solutions rather than structural improvements that position the bureaucracy for the longer-term competition and to avoid altogether the conflict. The post By Skimping on the Budget for Competition with China, Washington Makes War More Likely appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
It looks like a good week for data protection. On Tuesday, the Commission presented a new proposal for a Regulation on additional procedural rules for the GDPR, and a few hours later, the ECJ published its decision C-252/21 on Meta Platforms v Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office). While the Commission's proposal to improve enforcement in cross-border cases should probably be taken with a pinch of salt, the ECJ ruled on some things with remarkable clarity. The first reactions to the ruling were quite surprising; few had expected the ECJ to take such a clear stance against Meta's targeted advertising business model. It does however represent a consistent interpretation of the GDPR in the tradition and understanding of power-limiting data protection.
