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

Dysfunction of Reward Processing Correlates with Alcohol Craving in Detoxified Alcoholics

Neuroimage, 2007

Journal Articles

Nuclear Iran, A: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster?

Journal of International Affairs, 2007

Journal Articles

Integrating Clinical Practice Guidelines for Smoking Cessation Into Mental Health Care for Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Clinical Trials, 2007

Journal Articles

Current Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism in Primary Care: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007

Journal Articles

Avoidance Coping Strategies Moderate the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and 5-Year Alcohol Treatment Outcomes

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2007

Working Papers

Information, Incentives and Institutions: Experimenting with Private-Public Partnerships to Link the Poor with Modern Supply Chains

2007

Working Papers

Workforce Perceptions of Hospital Safety Culture: Development and Validation of the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations Survey

Health Services Research, 2007

Journal Articles

Iran's weakened hard-liners crave a US attack

Christian Science Monitor, 2007

Recent Publications

Dysfunction of Reward Processing Correlates with Alcohol Craving in Detoxified Alcoholics

Nuclear Iran, A: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster?

Integrating Clinical Practice Guidelines for Smoking Cessation Into Mental Health Care for Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Predictors of a Suicide Attempt One Year After Entry into Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia

Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming

Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experiences of Five Major Developing Countries

Influence of Race on Inpatient Treatment Intensity at the End of Life

Ventral Striatal Hyporesponsiveness During Reward Anticipation in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Iraq's Civil War

Liberal Is as Liberal Does

Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia

Factors Associated with Identification and Management of Maternal Depression by Pediatricians

Nuclear Safeguards: How Far Can Inspectors Go?

Dangerous Dealings: North Korea's Nuclear Capabilities and the Threat of Export to Iran

HIV Testing of At Risk Patients in a Large Integrated Health Care System

Current Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism in Primary Care: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians

Avoidance Coping Strategies Moderate the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and 5-Year Alcohol Treatment Outcomes

Information, Incentives and Institutions: Experimenting with Private-Public Partnerships to Link the Poor with Modern Supply Chains

Innovation in China's Energy Sector

Terrorism and Trial by Jury: The Vices and Virtues of British and American Criminal Law

Terrorist Organizations' Vulnerabilities and Inefficiencies: A Rational Choice Perspective

Nuclear Attribution as Deterrence

Workforce Perceptions of Hospital Safety Culture: Development and Validation of the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations Survey

Iran's weakened hard-liners crave a US attack