Technology Policy
ORF America
Who Builds, Wins: The Trillion-Dollar Contest ...

By Andreas Kuehn

The contest for AI supremacy is no longer about who has the best models, but about who can fund, power, and scale the infrastructure behind them.

Who Builds, Wins: The Trillion-Dollar Contest for AI Infrastructure
Economic Development
ORF America
The colours of capital

By Udaibir Das

Can capital take on purpose without money losing the fungibility on which markets depend? The question must be asked while the machinery is still being chosen.

The colours of capital
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Raising ambition in the India-New Zealand ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar

The India-New Zealand partnership has benefited in recent years from top-down political attention, a strong people-to-people foundation, and external impulses compelling both New Delhi and Wellington to diversify their partnerships. The next few years represent an opportunity to build upon the foundations of an FTA and Strategic Partnership and construct a relationship that is more than two-dimensional.  

Raising ambition in the India-New Zealand partnership
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
A Pact Without Impact

By Vasabjit Banerjee

The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement faces all the classic challenges of an alliance with none of the unifying elements.

A Pact Without Impact
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Net Zero Planning Needs an AI Update. COP31 is ...

By Piyush Verma and Andrei Covatariu

The COP31 presidency has proposed raising electricity’s share of global final energy demand, yet AI is largely missing from climate and energy planning. At COP31 in Antalya this November, that needs to change.

Net Zero Planning Needs an AI Update. COP31 is the Right Moment to Do That

March 2025

Navigating the Entanglements in the U.S.-China Quantum Technology Race

Navigating the Entanglements in the U.S.-China Quantum Technology Race

By Linda Nhon and Andreas Kuehn

Trump 2.0’s overall policy directions in critical and emerging technologies will likely hew to common expectations. The details, however, of what technologies the new administration will prioritise and how actions, such as tariffs and export controls for example, will affect the United States’ (US) innovation and technology leadership remains underexplored.

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