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Partial-freedom in a protectionist economy

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Vasabjit Banerjee
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Technological determinism

Do we determine the influence of technology in society or does technology shape us in ways that we don’t anticipate? With technology — and…

Lesley Seebeck
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A competitive post-carbon world

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Wesley Morgan
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Interconnectivity and crisis contagion

Politics will be inward looking and authoritarian, but the global economy will remain deeply interconnected with crises likely to cascade…

Jean-Marie Guéhenno
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The splintering of digital democracy

As younger generations enter the digital world, they are gravitating less to the “traditional” platforms — such as Facebook — and…

James Mortensen
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A path to climate consensus

Staring down the risk of mutually assured climate-destruction, and increasingly dissatisfied populations, by 2035 the world will experience a…

Richard Yetsenga
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Liberia: the canary in the social media coal mine?

To understand how the toxic information ecosystems of the future will inflame political divides and undermine democracy, Prue Clarke looks to how a…

Prue Clarke
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The laundering of crazy and the future of democracy

Reduction in professional journalism in the digital age allows alternative truths and paranoid theories to take hold. What this means for the future…

Elise Thomas

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Asia’s increasingly volatile role in international order

Asia will go from being a global centre of economic growth and political stability, to a centre of economic power but political instability….

Jeffrey Wilson
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The problem of hedonic adaption

The problem of hedonic adaption must be confronted, because not doing so will see democracy at risk of being replaced by technocracy in…

Tom Nichols
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Australia faces a struggling Southeast Asia

Economic growth in Southeast Asia will taper off, regional integration will stagnate, and governments will move closer to…

Ben Bland
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The coming era of big government

We are entering an era of ‘big government’ — governments around the world will have more power and control over markets and…

Yun Jiang
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Why reducing global vulnerability is paramount

Without a shift from current trends that focus vulnerability on segments of society, the impact of conflating natural hazards will overwhelm the…

Mark Crosweller
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Vasabjit Banerjee

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University

Lesley Seebeck

Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Institute, Australian National University

Wesley Morgan

Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution
Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation

Richard Yetsenga

Chief Economist and Head of Research
ANZ

James Mortensen

Research Fellow
ANU Cyber Institute
Prue Clark

Prue Clarke

Senior Executive Officer
Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas

Elise Thomas

Researcher, International Cyber Policy Centre
Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Raihan Ismail

Senior Lecturer
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU

Chris Zappone

Digital Foreign Editor
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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