By Dhruva Jaishankar
Those who contend that Quad is simply a talk shop have not been paying sufficient attention to its accompanying activities.
By Udaibir Das
What began as a spread on a bond has become a spread across the sovereign balance sheet. The 2025 annual meetings have made clear that incremental adjustments will not suffice. Until new institutions and norms emerge, sovereigns will continue to pay in basis points and in ownership and discover that what the premium buys is not sovereignty, but postponement.
Background Paper No. 35
By Udaibir Das and Hansika Nath
By Udaibir Das
In a climate emergency, redundancy might be precisely what resilience requires. The sovereignty premium is that insurance price. Whether it’s worth paying depends on how much autonomy matters versus efficiency – and whether choice exists at all.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Those who contend that Quad is simply a talk shop have not been paying sufficient attention to its accompanying activities.
Originally published in the U.N. Open-ended Working Group on ICTs “zero draft” report, March 2021.
By Abagail Lawson, Anneleen Roggeman, Michael Depp, and Bruce McConnell
Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Oommen C. Kurian
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.
Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Darshana M. Baruah
Part of a the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Frédéric Grare
Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Nilanthi Samaranayake
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