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Uranium for the U.S. Nuclear Renaissance – 2: Towards a global geopolitical race

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:40:48 +0000

(Art direction and design: Jean-Dominique Lavoix-CarliPhotos credits : Didier Descouens & Egor Kamelev) The uranium requirements created by the planned American nuclear renaissance are immense and unprecedented (see Helene Lavoix, “Uranium for the U.S. Nuclear Renaissance: Meeting Unprecedented Requirements (1)“, The Red Team Analysis Society, 27 November 2024). Yet, the production of uranium in the …

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Which Country has the most Influence in the World?

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:22:21 +0000

(Art direction and design: Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli) Editor’s note — June 2026: This analysis was originally published in January 2024. Since then, the US attacked Iran twice. First, during the twelve-days war, it succoured its ally Israel, which had launched the war against Iran on 13 June.1 Second, again with Israel, on 28 February 2026, the …

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China’s Perception of U.S. International Politics

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:28:14 +0000

(Art design: Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli) The relationships between the two superpowers, the U.S. and China, dominate the international world. Here, we look at the way China perceives American foreign relations. How the U.S. perceives China and how much the former sees the latter as a threat, what this will entail in terms of future American actions …

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Is the COVID-19 Second Wave coming to China?

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:18:36 +0000

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the world. It reached first the U.S., Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. By mid-November 2020 it started being visible in Eastern Asia (e.g. Reuters Covid-19 Global Tracker: World and Asia and the Middle East). By the end of November 2020, South Korea and …

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High Performance Computing Race and Power – Artificial Intelligence, Computing Power and Geopolitics (3)

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:19:10 +0000

This article explores three major challenges actors face when defining and carrying out their policies and answers in terms of high performance computing power (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), considering the political and geopolitical consequences of the feedback relationship linking AI in its Deep Learning component and computing power – hardware – or rather HPC. …

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Artificial Intelligence, Computing Power and Geopolitics (2)

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:22:55 +0000

This article focuses on the political and geopolitical consequences of the feedback relationship linking Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its Deep Learning component and computing power – hardware – or rather high performance computing power (HPC). It builds on a first part where we explained and detailed this connection. Related Artificial Intelligence, Computing Power and Geopolitics …

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Which U.S. Decline? The View from the U.S. National Intelligence Council

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:02:24 +0000

The second decade of the 21st century appears to be rough for the U.S.. Could it mean that American power is waning? The question of a putative decline of the U.S. regularly emerges in international relations and in the media since at least the 1970s (Kenneth Waltz; Theory of International Politics, 1979: 177-178). However, each …

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Investigating the Rise of Populism – A Perfect Definition?

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:50:29 +0000

This article and the next focuses on the “rise of populism”, the second explanation given for two of the major recent political and geopolitical surprises – i.e. the Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President. Populism and its rise are potentially at the heart of a possible crisis in Europe, and world-wide, should “populist” …

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