Shera Avi-Yonah

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197 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Kicking and screaming: protests at World Cup · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Yes, but none of the analogues are perfectly comparable.

So for example, we're familiar with sovereign waters and know how to deal with that example, and there's a clear delineation between

The ocean that is all of ours and is collective property and each individual country's sea space.

With Antarctica, the status quo was basically frozen in 1959 when the treaty that governs Antarctica came into force.

And that recognized a few countries' national claims and said there should be no commercial exploitation of Antarctica at all.

Neither has been applied to space and information.

fact, one of the big questions is where does space begin?

There's no actually widely recognized legal definitions.

So, you know, if you think about low Earth orbit and things like that, you can get into lots of tricky questions about, okay, say you do agree that space is the province of mankind.

Well, where does it begin then?

might this be headed?

The high-minded academics among us have suggested more treaties, a kind of grand international bargain.

But unfortunately, I think as with many other areas, we're not in a world order that's particularly conducive to that kind of broad-based international cooperation, especially when there's a lot of money to be made.

As profits from space become more and more consequential, we might see

a breaking of the taboo that there's no such thing as space property.

And if Elon Musk really does achieve his dream of a self governing city on Mars, the ultimate battle may not be, in fact, with the planet's climate, but with the IRS.

Shira, thank you so much.

Thanks very much, Rosie.

The Intelligence from The Economist · Duo’s lingo: what to watch for in Trump-Xi summit · 13 May 2026 podcast

In America, there have been few business rivalries as fierce and long lasting as that of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

For more than a century the pair have fought it out for dominance of the fizzy drinks market.

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