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DOING IT DIFFERENTLY? RISING POWERS AND GLOBAL SUMMITRY
By Tom CHODOR
Global Policy Journal, 17 November 2023
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THE G20 MAY BE A TALK FEST, BUT IT’S A TALKFEST WE NEED AT A TIME OF GROWING DIVISION
By Tom CHODOR
The Conversation, 15 November 2022
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SOCIALLY DISTANT GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
By Tom CHODOR
Global Policy Journal, 15 November 2023
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CAN THE US COMPETE WITH CHINA’S BELT & ROAD INITIATIVE?
By Maxilian MAYER, Gedaliah AFTERMAN, and Narayanappa JANARDHAN
Responsible Statecraft, 29 September 2023
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GEOSTRATEGIC DECOUPLING: HOW US-CHINA RIVALRY IS SHAPING A NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR 
By Steve ROLF and Seth SCHINDLER
14 April 2023
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LOGISTICAL FLOWS, FRICTIONS, AND ‘CONTACT ZONES’ 
By Louis CYUZUZO
6 March 2023
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DISCUSSIONS ON PACIFIC AID
By Hannah McNICOL, writing for the Griffith Asia Institute
6 February 2023
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THE EMERGENT MULTIPOLAR ORDER: THE G2, "‘BRIS’ AND GLOBAL CHINA
By Seth SCHINDLER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
12 December 2022
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WHAT WOULD JULIUS NYERERE THINK ABOUT CWII?
By Gilead TERI & Seth SCHINDLER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
17 November 2022
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EUROPE AND THE SECOND COLD WAR IN SUBMARINE CABLE NETWORKS
By Joscha ABELS
24 April 2025
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CHINA’S PARTY-TO-PARTY DIPLOMACY IN AFRICA
By Hezron MAKUNDI
3 April 2025
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THE SECOND COLD WAR AND DEMISE OF THE WESTERN FOREIGN AID REGIME
By Jack TAGGART
8 February 2025
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RENMINBI INTERNATIONALIZATION: PULL AND PUSH
FACTORS IN AN ERA OF GEOPOLITICAL RIVALRY
By Paolo BALMAS
29 January 2025
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READING GE’S WHAT IS CHINA? IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SECOND COLD WAR
By Paolo BALMAS
18 October 2024
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HUNGARY’S REINDUSTRIALIZATION: HEDGING GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICTS?
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (4 of 4)
By Ágnes GAGYI, Tamás GERŐCS and Linda SZABÓ
6 May 2024
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MINING LITHIUM IN EUROPE’S (SEMI)PERIPHERY AND THE MAKING OF AN EXTRACTIVIST FRONTIER
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (3 of 4)
By Nina DJUKANOVIĆ
2 May 2024
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FAILED INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE PROMISE OF DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (2 of 4)
By Lela REKHVIASHVILI and Evelina GAMBINO, 25 April 2024
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A REGULATIONIST PERSPECTIVE ON INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN THE US AND THE EU
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (1 of 4)
By David KARAS, 11 April 2024
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INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN GEOECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING: A DISPATCH SERIES FROM EAST EUROPEAN AUTHORS  
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (Introduction)
By Agnes GAGYI, Nina DJUKANOVIĆ, Evelina GAMBINO, Tamás GERÖCS , David KARAS, Lela REKHVIASHVILI, Linda SZABÓ, 11 April 2024
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BRAZIL IN THE “SECOND” COLD WAR: NAVIGATING US-CHINA FAULT LINES  
By Henoch Gabriel MANDELBAUM
22 January 2024
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THE G20 WILL STRUGGLE TO ADVANCE ITS POLICY AGENDA
By Tom CHODOR
Oxford Analytica Expert Briefing, 23 December 2023
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IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL SOUTH OF US-CHINA RIVALRY IN STATE PLATFORM CAPITALISM 
By Richard HEEKS and Seth SCHINDLER
9 November 2023
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THE GLOBAL SUMMITRY CIRCUS
By Isabelle ZHU-MAGUIRE and Tom CHODOR
Global Policy Journal, 7 December 2023
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LATIN AMERICAN AND THE GLOBAL COLD WAR
By Hannah McNICOL, University of Manchester and University of Melbourne
12 October 2022
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WHERE ARE WE HEADING? EINE JUNGE PERSPEKTIVE
By Lukas Hochscheidt, Leonie Hopgood, Philip Nock, Frederik Schmitz, Maximilian Schranner
49Security, 2022
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Über die Zukunft gibt es keine Tatsachen, nur Interpretationen (THERE ARE NO FACTS ABOUT THE FUTURE, ONLY INTERPRETATIONS)
By Philip NOCK & Maximilian SCHRANNER
Summer of Security, 2022, LINK