Closing the Governance Gap in Climate, Security, and Peacebuilding
…Susanne. Addressing the Risks of Climate Change. What Role for the UN Security Council? Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2020. Accessed July 28, 2020. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2020RP06_UNSC_Climate.pdf. At the Security Council, Angola…
Red Cell: The Chimera of Technological Superiority
…thus levels the playing field and shifts development to commercial markets. Today, private U.S. companies, such as Google, SpaceX, Amazon, and OpenAI, spend more on the research and development of…
China’s Activities In Southeast Asia And The Implications For U.S. Interests
…on dissidents, provoked a dispute that could cause Google to abandon the Chinese market, and hacked into U.S. government and private sector computer networks, apparently to gain access to high…
North Africa Weekly: September 24, 2025
…Hear directly from experts, regional voices, and thought leaders shaping North Africa’s future. Google’s Managing Director for Africa on Digital Transformation Google announced four new African hubs to connect subsea…
AI Race: The Promise and Perils of Techno-Utopians
…of engineered consensus, where politics and consent of the governed disappear alongside human agency. No wonder some in the industry, like Google CEO Sundar Pichai, support integrating social scientists, philosophers,…
The Origins of the Minerva Initiative
…including scholars and educators, applied their skills to the war effort. This experience of public service shaped a generation of engaged scholars who devoted themselves to policy relevant research during…
Making the Nation Safer Through Social Science
…in whose research and educational activities both of us have participated.2Note: Kruglanski was START’s founding co-PI and co-director. In 2008, the Minerva Research Initiative was launched by the U.S. Department…
Working safely with communities: how to mitigate risks?
…partner can also offer temperature checks from the community on how the researchers are being perceived, so that they can stop the research or correct misperceptions if tensions are becoming…