Delegitimizing women and limiting their rights goes hand in hand with democratic backsliding around the world. @saskiabr.bsky.social explained the relationship between women’s rights and democratic resilience, for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

California dreamin’ — of the future of AI. The 2025 Carnegie California AI Survey is out. While Californians believe that AI will impact their work, communities, and democracy, they are uncertain of specific impacts, such as safety and cybersecurity.

Armies shape war, but war shapes armies. Russia has turned its invasion of Ukraine into an effort to draw from failures and adapt its strategy & approach to the future of combat in Ukraine and beyond, writes @massdara.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...

Initiatives like the Riyadh Comedy Festival aren’t helping Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman “clean up” his image abroad. But the kingdom’s international reputation isn’t its main priority here. @andrewleber.bsky.social, on @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/10/04/n...

As it is now, the Trump plan isn’t a viable path to peace in Gaza, says @zaha-hassan.bsky.social. To bring the war and the humanitarian catastrophe to an end, governments must focus on human rights and international legitimacy. More from Zaha here: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

I looked at the domestic drivers of the Riyadh Comedy Festival for @carnegieendowment.org carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

This week, the White House announced an executive order aimed at shoring up U.S. security support for Qatar. But, in light of recent events – namely, Israel’s airstrike in Doha – will it work? @andrewleber.bsky.social explains: youtube.com/shorts/6kWXI...

From the outside, former president Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction looks like a big win for Brazilian democracy. Is it really? What’s next? And why is President Trump getting involved? @oliverstuenkel.bsky.social joins Jon Bateman to discuss on The World Unpacked: youtu.be/RJ9dS92rZew

Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan comes as the humanitarian dimensions of the crisis are increasingly intersecting with political pressures & security priorities. Can Trump’s plan reconcile its ambitions with the reality on the ground? Amr Hamzawy explains: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Can China sell itself as an alternative to the Western-led security order? @sheenagreitens.bsky.social joined @gmfus.bsky.social’s @bglaser.bsky.social on the China Global podcast to discuss. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Six years ago, President Trump told India’s PM Narendra Modi he had never had a better friend as President than him. This summer, U.S.-India relations hit their lowest point in decades. @milanv.bsky.social, with Isaac Chotiner for the @newyorker.com, explains why: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

As the Trump administration moves to shrink FEMA, disaster-torn communities, like St. Louis, struggle to recover without adequate federal aid. @sarahlabo.bsky.social explained one way the administration is holding aid back, for @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

California is an economic and political leader in the U.S. and globally. But it also faces challenges common among wealthy democracies. How can the state’s leaders chart a successful path forward?

International students are critically important for U.S. universities, and for the U.S. economy. President Trump’s staggering new H-1B visa fee puts both at risk. @milanv.bsky.social and Devesh Kapur explain, for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Israel’s PM Netanyahu meets with President Trump today on the heels of a wave of Western countries announcing their recognition for a Palestinian state. What impact does this recognition actually have? Amr Hamzawy explains, for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

President Trump’s TikTok deal puts the company's U.S. operations under U.S. control. But it doesn’t do much to address the economic or security concerns that motivated the deal in the first place, says @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social. More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...

ICYMI: This week, the bipartisan Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. National Security (convened by Carnegie, @nti.org, and @belfercenter.bsky.social) released its full report on preventing disaster under a new nuclear era. Read the full report here: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

As this week’s UN General Assembly session wraps up, we're looking back at one thing that dominated the headlines: President Trump’s speech. But beyond the speech’s unprecedented nature, what made it so remarkable? Stewart Patrick explains: youtube.com/shorts/t_-z_...

Today, French farmers held a day of protest, driving tractors to Versailles palace. Erin Jones connects protests like this to other recent examples of “greenlash” across Europe in a new short for @carnegieendowment.org:

Will superintelligent AI destroy humanity? Nate Soares, leading “doomer” and bestselling co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, joins Jon Bateman to discuss on The World Unpacked. Watch here: youtu.be/TSfWqp6djck?...

Nuclear proliferation is back on the global stage in a big, new way. What can Washington do – and change – to make the world safer? Task Force co-chairs Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Ernest J. Moniz, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan wrote for @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

For years, Nepal's government ignored the political power of the country's youth, writes Amish Raj Mulmi, and caused a revolution on Discord over government corruption and economic distress as a result. Read the full article here: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Nuclear risks are rising as old safeguards fray. A new high-level bipartisan Task Force convened by @carnegieendowment.org, @nti.org, & @belfercenter.bsky.social lays out a blueprint to prevent an era of nuclear anarchy. @carnegienpp.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Which Egyptian soda reigns supreme? What did Egyptians think of the Arab Spring? And how can we capture and memorialize moments of peace? Sarah Yerkes walked us through these questions (and more!) when we toured her office. Watch episode 2 of Carnegie Office Hours: youtube.com/shorts/yiSDP...

In the market for a new podcast? We’re bringing The World Unpacked BACK for a new, revamped season! Each week, new host Jon Bateman and guest(s) dive deep on the forces behind today’s turbulent times to bring you the most interesting takes on global affairs.

How should the U.S. confront nuclear proliferation today? Carnegie, together with @nti.org and @belfercenter.bsky.social, convened a bipartisan Task Force to explore this question – and point to some possible answers. Read the full report here: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

A new Task Force report by NTI, @carnegieendowment.org, and the @belfercenter.bsky.social warns of rising nuclear proliferation risks and lays out a strategy to protect global security. Read the full report now: www.nti.org/news/biparti...

New: The Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. National Security today published its final report urging the U.S. to strengthen its strategy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and safeguard national security. Convened by the @carnegieendowment.org, @nti.org and the Belfer Center.

China is trying to sell itself as the safest country in the world – especially, implicitly, as safer than the West. @sheenagreitens.bsky.social on the success of this sales pitch at last week’s global forum, for @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/5c42...

The Trump administration is slow-walking disaster aid, write Jennifer DeCesaro and @sarahlabo.bsky.social – and risks leaving people and communities to “clean up on their own.” More in Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Are we in a “post-Western” world? If so, how did we get here? And what does the decline of U.S. hegemony mean for middle powers around the world? Stewart Patrick on these questions and more, for @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The government-led campaign against Türkiye’s main opposition party appears to follow a central principle, says @iacoskun.bsky.social: “If you can’t beat them, find another way to contain them.” What this containment looks like & what it may mean: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

“Electrostate” is “the geopolitical buzzword of the year,” says @noahjgordon.bsky.social, especially in regard to China. But when writers say “electrostate,” are they using it right? And why does that matter? Noah explains, for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Today, Arab foreign ministers will meet in Qatar for an emergency summit in the wake of Israeli attacks. But, says Aaron David Miller, it’s not likely to yield anything more than “rhetoric.” Full conversation with @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social on @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

Across the Middle East, Israel’s strikes on Qatar have raised questions– among them whether the region can rely on the U.S. for protection. Amr Hamzawy, Sarah Yerkes, @andrewleber.bsky.social, and Marwan Muasher share more: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

The Trump administration’s condemnation of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction is just the latest in a string of attacks on judges at home and abroad. @carnegiedcg.bsky.social’s Thomas Carothers, for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Last week, ICE detained 300 South Korean workers at a raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia. In Seoul, the images “sparked a rare cross-partisan, national consensus.” @darciedraudt.bsky.social explains the international impact of a supposedly domestic action: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Check out our new work, Statutory Construction and Interpretation for Artificial Intelligence, doing exactly this! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01186 Policy Brief: www.polarislab.org/briefs/Statu... Blog: www.polarislab.org#/blog/statut...

Interpretive ambiguity is a major challenge for legal systems and AI models. But AI doesn’t have the institutional safeguards that the law uses to manage ambiguity. Carnegie president Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and co-authors on what to do, on @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01186

Luxi He, Nimra Nadeem, Michel Liao, Howard Chen, Danqi Chen, Mariano-Florentino Cu\'ellar, Peter Henderson Statutory Construction and Interpretation for Artificial Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01186

"Democracies are weaker than they have been for decades," write Carnegie president Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and @sethlazar.org for @knightcolumbia.org. "A great wave is coming, and they are ill-prepared." AI agents could help or hurt. And they won't protect democratic values on their own.

In the latest essay in our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @sethlazar.org and Tino Cuéllar (@carnegieendowment.org) discuss how AI agents might affect the realization of democratic values. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

New paper by @sethlazar.org and Tino Cuéllar of @carnegieendowment.org for @knightcolumbia.org's project on AI & Democratic Freedoms - AI Agents and Democratic Resilience. Short 🧵 below with a few screenshots from the essay to pique your interest: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

At this week's military parade, China showed off land, sea, and air-base nuclear capabilities for the first time. What's so significant about these weapons and China's choice to display them so prominently? @nktpnd.bsky.social explains: youtube.com/shorts/mj8S2...

Economic hardship is deepening in Indonesia. But lawmakers just got a pay raise. The protests that resulted have brought politics as usual, writes Sana Jaffrey, to an end. Read more here: carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

The Development Finance Corporation, the U.S. development bank, is set to expire next month. Securing its future is crucial for the U.S. -- but why? @afreenakhter.bsky.social explains: youtube.com/shorts/pG5Sh...

China’s latest AI strategy is ambitious: Beijing wants to deploy AI tools across 90% of its economy by 2030. It also (probably) won’t work. Scott Singer explains why: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

South Korea and Japan face geopolitical, demographic, and economic challenges – and the unpredictability of the Trump administration doesn’t help. But last week’s meeting between the two countries’ leaders was a positive sign, writes @kenjikushida.bsky.social: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Britain, France, and Germany just triggered the snapback mechanism for sanctions on Iran. With the deadline on a deal now set to 30 days, “time is running out to avert a renewed nuclear crisis with Iran,” says @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social. More in Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

🆕Fear-based messages about corruption often backfire, leading to apathy, acquiescence, or even authoritarianism. @abigailbellows.bsky.social offers lessons and best practices for advocates pushing back on worsening corruption in a new piece for @carnegieendowment.org