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Geopolitics & Middle Powers

Can You Poach A Frontier Lab?
A realistic roadmap for U.S. allies after the Anthropic crisis
Mar 3 • Anton Leicht
The Delhi Gap
Billions of people or trillions of dollars are catastrophically wrong.
Feb 25 • Anton Leicht
What AI Summits Are For
The best international AI policy is to fix national strategies
Feb 16 • Anton Leicht
Import Imperatives
How and why middle powers should import frontier AI systems
Feb 6 • Anton Leicht
How AI Safety Is Getting Middle Powers Wrong
The case for pivoting from global governance to national interests
Jan 22 • Anton Leicht
Forging a Pax Silica
Can the Western alliance be rebuilt on techno-strategical leverage?
Dec 17, 2025 • Anton Leicht
When Should Nations Sell Their Data?
Service economies might have to treat data as a strategic asset beyond privacy politics
Oct 29, 2025 • Anton Leicht
The Future of AI Export Deals
AI developers can build moats by making country-level exports work for everyone
Oct 23, 2025
Making American AI Export Promotion Work
How to sell the American stack to an uninformed world
Sep 24, 2025 • Anton Leicht
A Strategic Case for H20 Chip Exports
Retracing the argument for exporting inference capacity
Sep 17, 2025 • Anton Leicht
AI, Jobs, and the Rest of the World
No one but America has the leverage to get AI labor policy right
Sep 9, 2025 • Anton Leicht
Mercantilist AI Policy
Reconstructing the doctrine behind US AI foreign policy
Aug 20, 2025 • Anton Leicht
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