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Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: ...

Background Paper No. 38

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Dhruva Jaishankar

Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: Multilateral Solutions for Energy, Defense, and Semiconductor Supply Chains
Economic Development
ORF America
Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring ...

By Udaibir Das

Drawing on the public sector balance sheet literature, the economics of sovereign self-insurance, and the Knightian distinction between risk and uncertainty, this paper argues that conventional sovereign asset-liability management is necessary but incomplete.

Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring Sovereign Funds in the Sovereign’s Policy Mandate
Special Report
ORF America
ORF Global Quarterly: Disruption and ...

Edited Volume

By Rachel Rizzo, Clemens Chay, Kartik Bommakanti, Vasabjit Banerjee, Aleksei Zakharov, Soumya Bhowmick, Arya Roy Bardhan, Jhanvi Tripathi, and Samriddhi Vij

Editors: Sharon Stirling and Eszter Karacsony

ORF Global Quarterly: Disruption and Recalibration
Economic Development
ORF America
Why the UAE’s OPEC exit signals a deeper ...

By Udaibir Das

More moves of this kind should be expected, extending beyond energy into critical minerals, technology standards, industrial policy, and cross-border finance. The UAE’s decision is not an outlier. It is a marker — not of fragmentation, but of redefinition.

Why the UAE’s OPEC exit signals a deeper recalibration of state autonomy
Technology Policy
ORF America
A U.S.-India Partnership for the AI Age

By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ylli Bajraktari

The United States and India now have a major opportunity to cooperate more closely on AI. But they must move beyond the rhetoric of shared values to building shared infrastructure.

A U.S.-India Partnership for the AI Age

Technology Policy

Smart Cities as Large Technological Systems: Collective Action Problems as Organizational Barriers to Urban Digital Transformation

Smart Cities as Large Technological Systems: Collective Action Problems as Organizational Barriers to Urban Digital Transformation

By Andreas Kuehn

In a race to develop ‘smart cities’, policymakers in metropolitan regions across the world are rapidly deploying IoT devices, sensors, and emerging ICTs, including AI and facial recognition to solve various urban governance challenges, including the need to increase efficiencies, and empower citizens.

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