GTG Research

Research Initiatives

The Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance (GTG) examines how emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and smart devices—are redefining power, economies, and policies worldwide. Our research addresses the complex challenges these advances pose for international security, and how governments, businesses, and individuals adapt to shifting landscapes of risk and opportunity.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & EMERGING TECHNOLOGY POLICY

Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, security, and governance worldwide, raising urgent questions about how to distribute its benefits equitably while managing risks. GTG examines how democracies can leverage AI innovation to advance shared prosperity and security, with particular attention to infrastructure requirements, Global South perspectives, and mechanisms for international cooperation.

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AI for Peace

This research initiative investigates how the United States and its allies and partners can leverage their comparative advantages in AI innovation to equitably distribute the benefits of AI while incentivizing trustworthy deployment. The research focuses on three key areas:

Infrastructural requirements for deploying AI at scale for countries at all levels of economic development and multilateral, multi-stakeholder mechanisms for meeting those requirements.
Global South perspectives on promising use cases for AI and governance approaches for facilitating AI deployment while managing risks.
Prospects and options for international collaborations to address cross-border security, environmental, and other externalities.

The Future of Decision–Making

The Future of Decision-Making Project (FODM) is a multi-year, interdisciplinary research initiative examining how emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence and advanced decision-support systems—are reshaping human decision-making in high-stakes domains such as national security, defense, and crisis management. Rather than focusing solely on technological capability, the project centers on the human dimension: how judgment, responsibility, and accountability evolve as machines increasingly inform, shape, or constrain human choices. The project brings together scholars and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to develop empirically grounded, policy-relevant insights into the future of human-machine decision systems.

GEOPOLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY

Emerging technologies are becoming central to great power competition and regional security dynamics. GTG examines how technological advantages translate into geopolitical leverage, how U.S. strategy can balance competition with innovation and alliance partnerships, and how technology is reshaping power dynamics across critical regions like East Asia.

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Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia

GTG's annual conference and ongoing research initiative brings together leading regional experts, policymakers, and industry leaders to examine how technological developments are reshaping geopolitical dynamics across East Asia. The research focuses on critical technology supply chains—particularly semiconductors—regional responses to U.S.-China competition, and opportunities for multilateral cooperation on technology governance.

CHINA & DIGITAL COMPETITION

China's rapid digital development and distinct governance approaches have profound implications for global markets, security, and technology standards. GTG analyzes Chinese technology policy and corporate strategies through original-language sources, providing insights into how China's digital trajectory shapes international competition and governance debates.

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DigiChina

The DigiChina project, led by Graham Webster, enhances understanding of China's digital policy developments through translating and analyzing Chinese-language sources. Since 2017, DigiChina has published translations of primary sources, contextual explanation, and analysis on China’s technology policy landscape, covering topics including the Cybersecurity Law regime, data governance, artificial intelligence, and China’s official push for greater technological independence.

CYBERSECURITY & INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Effective governance of technology challenges requires sustained dialogue and cooperation across borders. GTG facilitates Track II exchanges with international partners, building relationships and shared understanding that can lay groundwork for broader policy cooperation on cybersecurity and technology governance issues.

Recent Publications

Publications

Journal Articles

Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.

JAIDS, 2009

Journal Articles

Decade of the Brain, of the Mind – or of Reason? The IV. Preparatory Conference for A "Decade of Consciousness 2010-2020“

Berliner Debatte Initial. Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Publizistik Berlin, 2009

Books

Recent Publications

Quality improvement strategies for children with asthma: A systematic review

How Much Does An Elementary School Merger Cost? Evidence from Rural China

Welfare Benefits, Canvassing, and Campaign Handouts

Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity Than Ethanol

Health literacy and child health promotion: Implications for research, clinical care, and public policy

Kleptocratic Interdependence: Trafficking, Corruption and the Marriage of Politics and Illicit Profits

Estimation of the warfarin dose with clinical and pharmacogenetic data.

Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.

Program spending to increase adherence: South african cervical cancer screening.

Modes of Musicality in Paul Celan’s Die Niemandsrose

Generating genome-scale candidate gene lists for pharmacogenomics.

Market evidence of misperceived mortality risk

Decade of the Brain, of the Mind – or of Reason? The IV. Preparatory Conference for A "Decade of Consciousness 2010-2020“

Spatial Down-Scaling as a Tool to Improve Multifunctionality Indicators in Economic Models

The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?

Agriculture

REAP Brief #108: Development Challenges, Tuition Barriers, and High School Education in China

Provider Payment Incentives: International Comparisons

Ability of expert physicians to structure clinical guidelines: Reality versus perception

Reversing the Decline: An Agenda for U.S.-Russian Relations in 2009

Mycobacterial tuberculosis infection in transplant recipients, early diagnosis and treatment of resistant tuberculosis

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Newborns for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Reframing Nuclear De-Alert: Decreasing the Operational Readiness of U.S. and Russian Arsenals

Dissociable neural representations of future reward magnitude and delay during temporal discounting

Do markets respond to quality information? the case of fertility clinics