Coffee in the Desert
Jesse MarksDispatches from the intersection of the Middle East, China, and international order
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Australia’s AI Buildout Needs a Better Bargain
Australia is courting American AI investment while seeking greater control over its dependence on foreign technology. Hosting the infrastructure those companies need could help Canberra reconcile the two ambitions. If firms commit to facili...
A Response to Yan Xuetong’s Al Jazeera Oped
When I learned that Yan Xuetong had written an op-ed for Al Jazeera speaking directly to GCC readers, it grabbed my attention. Why? Yan is one of China’s foremost political scientists and scholars of international relations. His work also s...
The Rise of Frontier Arabic AI
I have been digging deep into some of the emerging trends in Gulf AI, specifically around Arabic model development. This paper reflects some of this research and aims to make a wide range of political science and technical AI research on Ar...
Polycrisis and the Iran War
This past week, I had the privilege of giving a talk at Australia National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs exploring the knock-on effects of the Iran war globally.
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Defend, Disperse, Recover: A New Resilience Model for AI Continuity in Conflict
Iranian strikes on AI infrastructure should change how Gulf governments think about the security of strategic compute. For years, data center protection has focused on cyber intrusion, physical access, power redundancy, and disaster recover...
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CEO of Rihla Research & Advisory LLC & PhD Student at Australia National University studying US-China AI competition in GCC. Writing on China-Middle East geopolitics, geoeconomic, conflict, and technology.
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