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Jan 15, 2025 | 
newamerica.org | Gordon LaForge
BRICS wants to usher in an international order less dominated by Western leadership and influence. To many in the Global South, that’s an appealing vision, Gordon LaForge lays out for World Politics Review.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Gordon LaForge
On Jan. 7, Indonesia officially became a full member of BRICS. With the addition of the world’s fourth-most-populous country and eighth-largest economy by purchasing power, the bloc now encompasses around half of the world’s population and a greater share of its economic output than the G7—and it’s set to grow further.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Gordon LaForge
On Jan. 7, Indonesia officially became a full member of BRICS. With the addition of the world’s fourth-most-populous country and eighth-largest economy by purchasing power, the bloc now encompasses around half of the world’s population and a greater share of its economic output than the G7—and it’s set to grow further.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Gordon LaForge |Martha Molfetas |Akash Kapur |Faisal Lalani
United Nations Member States are finalizing deliberations on the Pact for the Future, the centerpiece of the Summit of the Future (September 20–23). Alongside a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration for Future Generations, the Pact will aim to reshape global governance and ensure it is fit for purpose in an increasingly multipolar world. What are the global reforms needed to make this a transformative moment?
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Gordon LaForge
Closing the AI governance divide between the Global North and South is necessary to ensure pre-existing power disparities do not worsen in the age of AI, writes Gordon LaForge for Tech Policy Press.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Gordon LaForge |Robert Muggah |Gabriella Seiler
Most artificial intelligence (AI) policies and practices have been developed in and for the Global North—contributing to a growing divide between the countries that influence global AI governance and the countries that do not. If global AI governance continues to predominantly exclude the Global South, then economic and developmental disparities between upper-income and lower-income countries will worsen, according to a new policy brief by New America and the Igarapé Institute.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Gordon LaForge
Gordon LaForge argues that by underinvesting in digital development, the US is ceding ground to autocracies and missing a crucial opportunity to promote an open, people-centered international system.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Gordon LaForge
If international aid is to help advance the United States’ national interests, then it’s encouraging that the new Digital Policy released last week by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, explicitly frames digital development as an instrument for countering China.
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May 8, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Gordon LaForge
Gordon LaForge argues that in spite of its weaknesses, the UN is still the ideal international body to play a leading role in AI governance as the rise of AI nationalism threatens international cooperation in harm mitigation and reduction. Read here.
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May 8, 2024 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Gordon LaForge
In “The Three-Body Problem” trilogy by Chinese science-fiction author Liu Cixin that was recently adapted into a Netflix series, Earth faces an alien invasion four centuries in the future. To plan and carry out planetary defense, humankind turns to the United Nations. Under a secretary-general who seems to command the authority of a global premier, the U.N. quickly forms a council with the resources and mandate to act on behalf of humanity.
