AUGUST 2024 | NO 2407

CHINA

China ups its stake in the Balkans

Investment in energy, infrastructure and mining neglects environmental concerns | DÉRENS & GESLIN ▶ p4

INDO-PACIFIC

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

AFRICA

A green revolution in the South Pacific?

Will deep-sea mining be a blessing or curse for the resource-rich Cook Islands? | GLEN JOHNSON ▶ p6

When and where the AI path divided When artificial intelligence emerged, enhancing human potential wasn’t on the menu | EVGENY MOROZOV ▶ p8

How South Africa’s Jews see Israel

What is it like to be Jewish in a country that lived through apartheid? | CHARLOTTE WIEDEMANN ▶ p10

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All-out war could devastate Lebanon’s south, and bring the country’s collapse

The Lebanese don’t want war with Israel. Does Hizbullah? | EMMANUEL HADDAD ▶ p2