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====== Affordances for states ======

//Published 25 January 2023//

This is a list of actions states could take that may be strategically relevant (or consequences or characteristics of possible actions).

===== Details =====

  * Regulate (and enforce regulation in their jurisdiction and investigate possible violations)
  * Expropriate property and nationalize companies (in their territory)
  * Perform or fund research (notably including through Manhattan/Apollo-style projects)
  * Acquire capabilities (notably including military and cyber capabilities)
  * Support particular people, companies, or states
  * Disrupt or attack particular people, companies, or states (outside their territory)
  * Affect what other actors believe on the object level
      * Share information
      * Make information salient in a way that predictably affects beliefs
      * Express attitudes that others will follow
  * Negotiate with other actors, or affect other actors' incentives or meta-level beliefs
  * Make agreements with other actors (notably including contracts and treaties)
  * Establish standards, norms, or principles
  * Make unilateral declarations (as an international legal commitment)

//Author: Zach Stein-Perlman//