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    LATEST RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

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    • Digital Economy
    • Transformative Technologies

    Mapping the Money Multiverse: From Cash to Crypto and Everything In Between

    An analysis of the evolving money landscape, from fiat and bank deposits to stablecoins, CBDCs, and beyond.

    • S. Yash Kalash
    • Paul Samson
    July 24, 2025

    • Foreign Interference
    • G20/G7

    Canada Must Guard Against China’s Economic Aggression — Or Risk Its Place in the New Global Order

    • Raquel Garbers
    July 25, 2025

    • Artificial Intelligence

    The Silent Erosion: How AI’s Helping Hand Weakens Our Mental Grip

    • Cornelia C. Walther
    July 17, 2025

    • Digital Economy
    • Financial Governance

    Digital Assets and the Potential for Global Systemic Risk

    • Timothy Lane
    July 17, 2025

    • Digital Economy
    • Financial Governance

    Digital Assets Regulation: Lessons from Mainland China and Hong Kong

    • Alex He
    July 18, 2025

    S. Aaronson, M. Moreno - China Privacy and Trump
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Data Governance
    • Privacy

    Taking the Wrong Lesson from China’s AI Strategy

    • Susan Ariel Aaronson
    • Michael Moreno
    July 29, 2025

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    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Geopolitics
    • Transformative Technologies

    China’s AI Governance Initiative and Its Geopolitical Ambitions

    • Raphael Racicot
    • Kurtis H. Simpson
    July 22, 2025

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    Strategic Plan 2025–2030

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    • Digital Governance
    • Financial Governance

    Opportunities for Digital Assets in a Fractured World

    • Timothy Lane
    July 11, 2025
    • Digital Economy
    • Digital Governance

    Decentralization, Assets and Privacy in the Twenty-First Digital Century

    • Andreas Veneris
    July 9, 2025
    • Digital Economy
    • Financial Governance
    • Geopolitics

    Exploring Potential Impacts of Global Shifts on Financial Systems and Assets

    • S. Yash Kalash
    June 26, 2025
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    • National Security

    Canada at Economic War: Being Outplayed by Beijing

    • Raquel Garbers
    June 24, 2025

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    • Data Governance

    The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data

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    Cybersecurity and Outer Space

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    The Ethics of Automated Warfare and Artificial Intelligence

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    • Platform Governance

    The Four Domains of Global Platform Governance

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    • Democracy
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    Situating Canada in a Changing World: Constructing a Modern and Prosperous Future

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    Global Cooperation on Digital Governance and the Geoeconomics of New Technologies in a Multi-polar World

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    • Transformative Technologies

    Global Cooperation after COVID-19

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    • National Security

    Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis

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    • Artificial Intelligence

    Modern Conflict and Artificial Intelligence

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    • Trade

    Modernizing the World Trade Organization

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    • National Security

    Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust

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    • National Security

    Canada at Economic War — Economic Statecraft Is Not Economic War

    If you want to understand economic war, you need to begin by understanding the difference between economic statecraft and economic war.

    Raquel Garbers, CIGI visiting executive from the Department of National Defence, outlines the clear distinction between the United States’ actions to reset its trade relationship with its allies and the economic warfare conducted by China while highlighting the dangers of conflating the two.

    • Raquel Garbers
    July 29, 2025

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Transformative Technologies

    AI-Driven Productivity Scenarios

    • Paul Samson
    • S. Yash Kalash
    June 2, 2025

    From Shipping Things to Spreading Ideas (unboxing global trade with Marc Levinson)

    • Paul Samson
    • Vass Bednar
    May 5, 2025

    • G20/G7

    T7 2025: Aligning G7 Priorities with Global Challenges

    • Paul Samson
    • Tracey Forrest
    • S. Yash Kalash
    • and more
    April 21, 2025

    Perfect Fit Content (from elevator music to your AI DJ with Liz Pelly)

    • Paul Samson
    • Vass Bednar
    April 22, 2025

    Events

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    8th Annual IP Data & Research Conference | 8e Conférence annuelle sur la recherche et les données en PI

    Nov 4, 2025 - 9:00 AM EST (UTC–05:00)
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    The Future of Digital Finance

    Sep 24, 2025 - 7:00 AM EDT (UTC–04:00)
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    • G20/G7

    Think7 Summit: Canada 2025

    Apr 1, 2025 - 8:00 AM EDT (UTC–04:00)
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