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Understand the full story. Debates bring together articles on a single theme, engaging multiple viewpoints on key issues.

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The Fix: Your Foreign Policy Watch List
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The Fix: All roads lead to the White House

Sean Turnell

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The Fix: War, waste and The Wiggles

Ryan Neelam

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The Fix: A realist take(s) on ChatGPT

Lydia Khalil

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The Fix: Explaining Indonesia’s silence in the North Natuna Sea

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan

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The Fix: Talking about the Pacific

Jessica Collins

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The Fix: How we tell stories about ourselves

Michelle Lyons

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The Fix: We still really don’t know PNG

Maholopa Laveil

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The Fix: Long road to inspiration

Meg Keen

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The Fix: Chipping in

Gilliane De Gorostiza

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The Fix: Beauty and bravery

Bec Strating

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The Fix: Putting in the boot

Jennifer Hsu

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The Fix: Backflips and realignments

Clare Caldwell

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The Fix: What has meaning

Sam Roggeveen

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The Fix: Spies and ties

Daniel Flitton
Debate Topic

The AI challenge
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Regulating artificial intelligence: How the EU just got us closer

Melinda Rankin

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Existential risk is a whole-of-society challenge

Tom Barber

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The Quad: Tackling the spider, not cobwebs, in cyberspace

Ravi Nayyar

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Don’t believe the hype: the many futures of AI

Jack Goldsmith

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How can we regulate AI? Let’s just ask it

Lydia Khalil , ChatGPT
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A new Washington Consensus?
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Is US industrial policy headed in the wrong direction?

Connor O’Brien

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The end of the neo-liberal order?

Stephen Grenville

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Two views on the best way forward for the “Washington Consensus”

Jenny Gordon

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Biden’s quiet economic revolution

Nick Bisley