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

Identification, Recombinant Expression, and Biochemical Characterization of a Flavonol 3-O-Glucosyltransferase Clone from Citrus Paradisi.

Phytochemistry, 2009

Working Papers

Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators for Primary Prevention in the Community: Do Women and Men Equally Meet Trial Enrollment Criteria?

American Heart Journal, 2009

Books

Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies (Governance and Limited Statehood)

Palgrave McMillan Press, 2009

Recent Publications

Identification, Recombinant Expression, and Biochemical Characterization of a Flavonol 3-O-Glucosyltransferase Clone from Citrus Paradisi.

Gurgaon and Faridabad - An Exercise in Contrasts

Associations Between Intensity of Child Welfare Involvement and Child Development among Young Children in Child Welfare

Living With Coal: Climate Policy's Most Inconvenient Truth

Improving Chronic Illness Care: A Longitudinal Cohort Analysis of Large Physician Organizations.

Fueling the Future: Mongolian Uranium and Nuclear Power Plant Growth in China and India

When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

Distribution of Highways Public Private Partnerships in India: Key Legal and Economic Determinants

Shifting From a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad

Unruly Stability: Why China's Regime Has Staying Power

Why Trade Negotiations Still Matter to US Agriculture

Health Care Cost Growth Among the Privately Insured

Medicare’s Policy Not To Pay For Treating Hospital-Acquired Conditions: The Impact

Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf

Systematic Review: Elective Induction of Labor Versus Expectant Management of Pregnancy

Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies

Space Cadets - The Korean Peninsula's Rocket Competition

New, but Not Improved? Incorporating Comparative-Effectiveness Information into FDA Labeling

Bar Charts Enhance Bland-Altman Plots when Value Ranges are Limited.

Laparoscopy in Women with Unexplained Infertility: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

A Randomized Trial of Computer-based Reminders and Audit and Feedback to Improve HIV Screening in a Primary Care Setting

Finesses and Game-Changers in Frontier Project Development: The Case of Carbon Capture and Storage

Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific

Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators for Primary Prevention in the Community: Do Women and Men Equally Meet Trial Enrollment Criteria?

Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies (Governance and Limited Statehood)