Technology Policy
ORF America
Middleware Solutions: Making Social Media More ...

By Katherine Salinas

The middleware approach presents the fewest First Amendment complications of any regulatory option. Rather than restricting speech or compelling specific viewpoints, it simply requires transparency and user choice.

Middleware Solutions: Making Social Media More Transparent
Energy & Climate
ORF America
India’s Energy Independence Agenda: Weaving ...

By Piyush Verma

By meeting clean energy targets ahead of schedule, expanding nuclear and hydrogen capacity, and securing critical mineral supply chains, India is positioning itself as a model for climate-conscious growth that does not compromise on economic or strategic goals.

India’s Energy Independence Agenda: Weaving Economic, Environmental, and Geopolitical Priorities
Technology Policy
ORF America
Strengthening India’s Cyber Incident Reporting ...

By Jiwon Lim

Despite a rapidly evolving cyber landscape, India’s cyber security focus marginalizes the trust building and assessment abilities that make up a reporting framework.

Strengthening India’s Cyber Incident Reporting Framework
Economic Development
ORF America
How the Global South Shaped the G20 and Global ...

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

The consecutive presidencies of Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa within the G20 offers a blueprint for how the Global South can continue shaping global governance at a time of geopolitical uncertainty and a rapid rebalancing of the globalization process itself.  

How the Global South Shaped the G20 and Global Governance
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
A Sudden Slide in U.S.-India Relations

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Over the past few months, relations between the United States and India have gone from stable and promising to tense and turbulent..

A Sudden Slide in U.S.-India Relations

Jeffrey Bean

A New Code for Cyber Intrusion Capabilities: Pall Mall

A New Code for Cyber Intrusion Capabilities: Pall Mall

By Elsa Debargue and Jeffrey D. Bean

The Pall Mall Process is a work in progress, and only time will tell if it proves durable and successful. However, it does hint at a potential turning point in current cyber governance efforts by adapting to the realities of a decentralized, privatized, and often invisible marketplace of digital intrusion.

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions

By Jeffrey D. Bean

All in all, the United States’ oscillating policy on AI diffusion reflects an ongoing struggle in how best to simultaneously retain U.S. leadership in semiconductors and advance compute for AI at both a market level and in national defense applications, while blocking adversaries’ access to advanced AI chips and the capability to manufacture them.

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Andreas Kuehn

Looking ahead, as the Department of Defense strives to incorporate and utilize more AI chips, it will need to secure access to leading nodes for edge chips and the confidence in pathways to use greater allocations of secure cloud services for advanced computing.

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