Universities are becoming Europe's front line of science diplomacy Europe is crossing an important threshold in science diplomacy. On 29 May 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted a recommendation outlining the EU's first framework for science diplomacy. Three days later, the Horizon Europe funded
Why governing artificial intelligence requires moving beyond rules and safeguards toward a broader architecture of science, technology, infrastructure, and diplomacy. The UN Secretary General’s remarks at the opening of the first Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance rightly underscored foundational imperatives: international cooperation, accountability, inclusion, safety, and the development
The dominant narrative in AI governance assumes we are racing toward artificial general intelligence and that the central task of policymakers is to manage that existential risk. Thilo Stadelmann, AI researcher, co-founder of AlpineAI, and Founding Director of the ZHAW Center for Artificial Intelligence , believes that narrative is not
A practical guide for navigating technology governance, critical minerals, global partnerships, and strategic competition. Science diplomacy has moved from a specialized practice to a central operating environment for great power competition, industrial strategy, technology governance, and international partnership. The frameworks being built now on artificial intelligence, critical minerals, technology standards,
At the 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the panel on “Innovation Economies & The Business of Emerging Tech” focused less on any single technology and more on the commercial architecture that makes emerging technology possible in the first place. Moderated by Melissa K. Griffith, the discussion featured
At the 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS, one of the most substantive conversations of the day focused on a question that sits at the center of U.S. economic security strategy: how trade policy, technology leadership, and industrial competitiveness are now converging in ways that can no
The 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS opened at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., with a defining question for this moment: what does technological sovereignty actually mean in 2026, and how is it reshaping global power, policy, and markets? The opening panel, “Technological Sovereignty
Space's New Architecture of Trust: Inside the Science Diplomacy Summit Panel At the Science Diplomacy Summit 2026, a panel titled Governing the Final Frontier brought together Frank Justice, Director of the Meridian Space Diplomacy Initiative, Victoria Samson, Chief Director for Space Security and Stability at Secure World Foundation,
The most important conversations in global diplomacy are not always happening in foreign ministries or at the United Nations. Sometimes they happen in a laboratory in Pyongyang, a research institute in Havana, or a conference room in Tehran, between scientists who share a language that can move across political divides.
