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Centers of Progress, Pt. 34: Kyoto (The Novel)

The thirty-fourth Center of Progress is Kyoto during the Heian (meaning “peace”) period (794–1185 AD), a golden age of Japanese history that saw the rise of a distinctive high culture devoted to aesthetic refinement and the emergence of many enduring artistic styles. As the home of the imperial court, Kyoto was the political battleground where noble families vied for prestige by patronizing the best artists. This courtly competition produced groundbreaking innovations in many areas, including literature, and birthed a new literary form that would redefine fiction-writing: the novel.

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How Dignity-First Development Can Spread Liberal Democracy Better

Outside experts must restrain their impulse to “solve” problems for the developing world.

The Great Enrichment, which raised living standards by a whopping 3,000 percent since 1800, was not planned from above. It was driven by individuals who, once free, could work to improve their lives and societies. Unfortunately, this insight is lost on the international development community, which continues to ignore local knowledge and push outsider-led projects on the developing world. In our new book, my co-author and I present a new model for international development, which combines the lesson of the Great Enrichment with the latest interdisciplinary research and our own experience supporting locally-led change around the world. We call it dignity-first development.

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Centers of Progress, Pt. 33: Memphis (Medicine)

The thirty-third Center of Progress is Memphis, an important center and capital of ancient Egypt that greatly advanced humanity’s understanding of medicine. The ancient Egyptians pioneered medical specialization and arguably invented rational (“non-magical”) medicine. Without the medical advances originating in ancient Memphis, our lives would be far shorter and sicklier.

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More than 30 companies to start making Pfizer's COVID pill

The U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool says that nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer’s coronavirus pill. ByThe Associated Press

Nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer’s coronavirus pill, the U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool that negotiated the deal said Thursday. The Medicines Patent Pool said in a statement that agreements signed with 35 companies should help make Pfizer’s antiviral nirmatrelvir, or Paxlovoid, available to more than half of the world’s population.

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Opinion | Putin’s Strange New Messaging on Russian TV

Russia’s flagship news broadcast is a rare window into Kremlin thinking — which is becoming muddier as the war drags on. Opinion by LAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS

In the Soviet period, watching the evening news broadcast on state television provided important clues into what was happening inside the Kremlin. One of my first jobs as a young Russian speaker living in Moscow was monitoring those broadcasts for American journalists — which leaders were shown shaking hands with whom could signal who was up or who was down in the Communist Party leadership. Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has eliminated the last vestiges of independent media in Russia, the evening news broadcast “Vremya” on Channel One — Russia’s main state TV channel — is once again one of the few ways to peek inside the Kremlin. The news show is little changed since Soviet times, heavily focused on Putin and the Kremlin’s official business.

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Engaging India Through The Middle East

In recent years the United States has been pursuing stronger relations with India, and for good reason. Setting aside that India is important in its own right—with more than 18 percent of the world’s population and with the sixth largest economy in the world—policymakers and strategists are also recognizing India’s power in regional and global affairs. Consider some of the most important international events over the past decade. The US has turned to India for support in sanctioning Iran, for rebuilding Afghanistan, for jointly working against terrorism in the region, and more recently, for coordinating on China and the Indo-Pacific. Developing a strong relationship with India is clearly in line with US interests. Given the need to develop strong relations between the two countries, how should US policymakers seek to win over their Indian counterparts? The answer may lie in the Middle East. India’s recent willingness to engage Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provides something of a roadmap for developing strong bilateral relations between the US and India. Furthermore, India seems to be open to the possibility of engaging in a “West Asian Quad,” specifically a multilateral partnership between the US, the UAE, and Israel. The US stands to gain from the emergence of a West Asian Quad. Taken together, US-India relations can be strengthened by observing what has worked at a bilateral level between India and its partners in the Middle East, and by advancing this new multilateral partnership.

A Potential Indo-Med Collaboration

New collaborations and alliances in the Indo-Med and Indo-Pac relations will continue to emerge, as the U.S. shifts resources and attention to dealing with current great power rivalries. Many types of such collaborations should be anticipated. In this context, I want to propose a concrete collaboration that poses difficulties but could prove meaningful, specifically: to enlist India as a channel for exchanges between Iran, on the one hand, and the Arab States or Israel on the other. The need for such a trusted channel of communication is great. Hostility between some Arab States and Israel, on the one hand, and Iran on the other, is acute and calls, not only for strong resistance to Iranian aggression, but also for diplomatic initiatives that could potentially improve relations and reduce the prospects of further escalation.

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Extending The Indo-US Partnership To The Middle East: Prospects And Limits Of Cooperation

The quadrilateral meeting that brought India together with the United States, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates in October 2021 has raised hopes that the US-India partnership in the Indo-Pacific could extend to the Middle East.1 As Washington diverts its attention and resources to the competition with China and Russia, American strategists hope that US partners could be counted on to carry a larger share of the regional security burden.2 India, in particular, has considerable economic and security interests in the Middle East; it sources over 58% of its crude petroleum imports from the region which is also home to about 9 million Indians, accounting for over 50% of India’s inward remittances. But while the US-India partnership in the Indo-Pacific is underpinned by a shared animosity towards China, their threat perceptions in the Middle East tend to diverge. As a result, although the quadrilateral framework provides the United States and India with a platform for extending their growing partnership to the Middle East in areas of importance, it is unlikely however to transform India into a reliable security partner for the United States in the region.

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