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Jan 17, 2025 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
The phrase, “Cometh the hour, cometh the man,” is often attributed to Sir Walter Scott’s novel Guy Mannering. To many of his followers, Donald Trump represents a symbol of hope for a nation in crisis. An unlikely political leader, President-elect Trump and his motley crew of tech-savvy billionaires now find themselves responsible for administering a rapidly disintegrating US-led order. Trump’s first term was marked by escalating trade wars, bombastic rhetoric and civil unrest.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya |Alex He
This paper examines the shifting global power dynamics driven by the rise of China and the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). Taken together, a rising tide of high-tech weapons development and a return to great power rivalry are setting the conditions for a tectonic shift in the global security landscape. The paper highlights the strategic challenges posed by these trends and underscores the critical need for multilateral cooperation in managing a new multipolar world order.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
Shrinking demographics and weak productivity growth have combined to paint a dismal picture of Canada’s economic future. As the Bank of Canada’s Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers explains, Canada’s central problem is a lack of long-term investment. In fact, the nation’s productivity woes are largely about weaknesses in strategic planning.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
The robots are coming — whether we’re ready or not. Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) are bleeding into dramatic new achievements in “humanoid robotics.” For many researchers, the goal is to leverage brain-inspired neural networks to develop machines that mirror human anatomy and even human performance. Not surprisingly, much of the research in autonomous and multimodal robots is being designed to replace human labour. The robotics industry is reaching a tipping point.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
Amid the persistent fragmentation of the global system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons stands out as an immense and pressing global challenge. This is particularly worrying given the accelerating decline of the authority of the United States.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
Fewer than nine months now separate the world from a possible second Trump presidency. Despite facing multiple criminal cases and widespread media condemnation, Donald Trump is favoured to return to the White House in 2025. To say the former president is a divisive figure would be an understatement. For his critics, Trump’s return to power would mark the end of democracy and the rise of a new kind of fascism.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
Policy Brief No. 8The scramble to dominate data-driven technologies is now central to global leadership. As the world’s major powers compete in the digital economy, technology platforms and the data they expropriate from their users have become critical to geopolitical advantage. Building on the tech industry, governments around the world have developed extensive surveillance systems that collect and analyze immense flows of data generated by the world’s technology users.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
As tech analyst Dylan Patel concludes, it is abundantly clear that . Huawei’s recent breakthrough in chip production for the Mate 60 Pro smartphone represents a watershed moment in the tech war between the United States and China. Rather than slowing the latter’s tech industry, US-led export controls appear to have catalyzed China’s domestic capacity. In fact, China now appears to be within striking distance of advanced US technologies.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
Combining the speed of ballistic weapons with the manoeuvrability of cruise missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) exemplify a . With their unique capacity to avoid defence systems by manoeuvring in mid-flight, these weapons pose a significant risk to the global balance of power. China’s rising investments in missile forces at the operational and strategic levels could dramatically change the calculus of major power war.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
cigionline.org | Daniel Araya
The impact of digital technologies on contemporary economic and social development has been nothing short of revolutionary. The rise of the internet has transformed the way we share content, buy and sell goods, and manage our institutions. But while the hope of the internet has been its capacity to expand human connection and bring people together, the reality has often been something else entirely.
