World Order
Empires of AI
In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaassen to make the provocative argument that AI is an inherently “imperial technology”—and to reveal what the fate of past empires might say about the future of U.S.-Chinese competition in a world shaped by AI.
Empires of AI
In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaassen to make the provocative argument that AI is an inherently “imperial technology”—and to reveal what the fate of past empires might say about the future of U.S.-Chinese competition in a world shaped by AI.
The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition
Trump’s new spheres of influence.
The World According to Xi Jinping
What China’s ideologue in chief really believes.
How China Wins the Future
Beijing’s strategy to seize the new frontiers of power.
A Great Rebalancing Is Coming
Who will bear the costs of a global trade adjustment?
The Abandoned Order
Learning to live in a post-American world.
China’s Legal Weapon
Beijing’s quest to challenge America’s legal hegemony.
The Chinese Way of Lawfare
Beijing’s quest to challenge America’s legal hegemony.
The U.S.—Decline or Renewal?
Examines areas which have been cited by ‘declinist’ writers as causes of the US economic, and hence national, decline, in particular (1) deficits (2) declining shares (3) ‘systemic’ failures. Highly critical of the arguments propounded by Paul Kennedy, counters that the real source of any nation’s decline — ‘internal stagnation’ — is something from which America is not suffering. Economic or military power are not the only determinants of national power, and so decline cannot be seen against a purely economic background. Concludes that although US predominance in world affairs is not so secure as it was, “the ultimate test of a great power is in its ability to renew its power”. Director, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.