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ERA OF UNITY: VICTORY IN UKRAINE

Judging from today’s reports in a variety of traditional and social media outlets, any well-intentioned…

By Peter Van Praagh, President, HFX

ERA OF ADVENTURE: PROTECTING OUR ARCTIC FROM RUSSIA AND CHINA

The Arctic’s remote location and challenging terrain has kept the region safe for years. That…

By Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, Canada

ERA OF ACTION: SINKING CRINK INC

My husband and I were recently rejected by a co-op in New York. We put…

By Masih Alinejad, President, World Liberty Congress, United States

ERA OF INNOVATION: TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGIES REBUILDING UKRAINE’S GRID

In the early hours of February 24, 2022, a barrage of missile strikes illuminated the…

By Nancy Southern, Chair and CEO, ATCO Ltd. and Canadian Utilities Limited, Canada

ERA OF OPPORTUNITY: IMMIGRANTS EXCEL

The 2024 U.S. presidential election has been the most xenophobic campaign season in U.S. history.…

By Mark Hetfield, President, HIAS, United States

ERA OF INTEGRITY: AI APPLICATIONS EVOLVE

The landscape of artificial intelligence (Al) is rapidly evolving and reshaping the ways we approach…

By Dominic Delmolino, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector Technology & Innovation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), United States

Paying Our Debt to President Zelenskyy’s Ukraine

The United States, Canada, the UK, Europe and democracies everywhere owe President Zelenskyy and every…

By Peter Van Praagh, President of HFX

VICTORY IN UKRAINE = CLIMATE COOPERATION

Nations that have territory within the Arctic Circle are neighbors by geography, but they are…

By Madeleine Redfern, Chief Operating Officer, CanArctic Inuit Networks Inc., Canada

FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES: VICTORY IN UKRAINE

It is clear that it was a cozy little house. The older daughter’s textbooks are…

By Olena Zelenska, The First Lady of Ukraine

VICTORY IN UKRAINE = ALLIES’ ACCESS TO INNOVATION

Venezuela’s democratic victory in 2024 will be a defeat for Russia. For twenty-five years, under…

By María Corina Machado, Opposition Presidential Candidate, Venezuela

MAKE THE WORLD SAFE AGAIN: VICTORY IN UKRAINE

I am a human rights lawyer and for many years I have been applying the…

By Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head, Center for Civil Liberties and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Ukraine

VICTORY IN UKRAINE = INDO-PACIFIC POSSIBILITIES

Before Russian tanks crossed into Ukraine, Putin suggested that the invasion was not merely inevita-…

By Tsuneo Watanabe, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Program, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan

VICTORY IN UKRAINE = MESSAGE TO THE CRINKS (CHINA/RUSSIA/IRAN/NORTH KOREA

CRINKS (China, Russia, Iran and North Korea) is a partnership of convenience rather than an…

By Steve Tsang, Director, China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom

VICTORY IN UKRAINE = EXAMPLE FOR ISRAEL

War is no substitute for political strategy. As the great Clausewitz told us, war is…

By Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

VICTORY IN UKRAINE = FEEDING THE WORLD

This year, food rose to the top of the geopolitical agenda as Russia backed out…

By Johan Bergenas, Senior Vice President, WWF-US, United States

Cold weather, high prices, long war: finding our winter resilience

When Russia’s aggression began in February, many believed that Russia would prevail and set the…

By Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of Czech Republic

The disinformation nations: kidnapping our citizens, corrupting our officials, stealing our stuff

People succumb to totalitarian rule once the line between truth and lies no longer exists,…

By Alar Karis, President of Estonia

The future of democracy? democracy.

Democracy is a tool that counters inefficiency, bad policies, and discrimination. It enables a peaceful…

By Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States

Mind the gap: Keeping our tech superiority

In September 1943, with the world engulfed in war and new technologies threatening widespread destruction,…