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The West must be careful not to overestimate or underestimate the importance of a new treaty between Russia and North Korea. While the agreement certainly brings new risks, it also may not last very long, Yoon Young-kwan explains.

Out now: My latest article for Project Syndicate discusses the ‘Three (3) Considerations in this Early Phase of The AI Super Cycle’. Whilst it’s difficult to make firm forecasts on how AI will impact the economy, business and society, it’s apparent that AI will impact three key components; *Capital, labour and productivity *This AI Supercycle will likely produce more economic growth and productivity gains - though gains could prove to be imbalanced. https://lnkd.in/entYs6Mu

Muslim-majority countries must embrace rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech, social cohesion, transparency, and merit-based governance if they want to achieve meaningful levels of development, former Turkish President Abdullah Gül explains. https://bit.ly/4cUKf6a

This month in PS She Writes, read incisive new commentaries by Binaifer Nowrojee, Shannon K. O’Neil, Titir Bhattacharya, and more.

Following US President Joe Biden's debate performance, the Democrats face an unprecedented predicament in what was already a uniquely dysfunctional US presidential election, Ian Bremmer writes.

Not much will change under the new The Labour Party government, because it will largely follow Conservative policy on government spending and borrowing and restoring relations with the European Union, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

Bond vigilantes remain the foremost binding constraint on economic recklessness in most countries. If National Rally's leaders are smart, they will moderate their fiscal-policy proposals and placate their base in other ways, Nouriel Roubini writes.

Saudi Arabia is making clear that it views the creation of an independent Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders as a precondition for normalizing relations with Israel. History is repeating itself, @CarlaNorrlof observes. https://bit.ly/45PKYn9

By applying the principles of progressive liberalism, the political center can provide distinct answers to each of the major policy challenges most countries are grappling with, write Andrés Velasco and Yair Zivan.

Among the many outright lies that Trump spewed throughout the debate, the most dangerous falsehoods concerned his and Biden’s respective economic-policy records, notes Joseph E. Stiglitz.