IGCC Year in Review

From new podcast miniseries, to cutting-edge working papers, policy briefs, and insightful blog posts, 2024 was a banner year for IGCC across all our core research strands. We hope you enjoy this collection of some of our top pieces from this year!
China, Geoeconomics, and Technology
- China Is Making a Play for Global Techno-Security Leadership—Here’s How the U.S. Should Respond
Blog | Tai Ming Cheung - Decoding China’s Technology and Industrial Policy: Seven Terms You Need to Know
Policy Brief | Barry Naughton, Siwen Xiao, et al. - China’s Fortress Economy
Working Paper | Jimmy Goodrich - The Quantum Race: U.S.-Chinese Competition for Leadership in Quantum Technologies
Policy Brief | Juljan Krause - Geoeconomics Defines a New Phase of International Competition
Commentary | James Lee - Re-engineering China’s Innovation Machine
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Nuclear Security
- Will a New Generation Learn to Love the Bomb?
Blog | Harry Oppenheimer - Is Russia Looking to Put Nukes in Space?
Blog | Spenser Warren - It’s an Interesting Time to Work on Nuclear Issues—That’s Both a Challenge and an Opportunity
Commentary | Mike Albertson - We Don’t Know as Much About Nuclear Strategy as We Think We Do
Blog | Eleni Ekmektsioglou - The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue: Three Decades of Track 1.5 Diplomacy
Blog | Stephan Haggard - Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT) Enters Its Third Decade
News | Paddy Ryan
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Democracy & International Organizations
- Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations
Working Paper | Christina Cottiero, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, et al. - Democracies and Autocracies are Contesting the Future of Multilateralism
Blog | Stephan Haggard and Paddy Ryan - The Weaponization of Information Technologies and Democratic Resilience
Working Paper | Austin Beacham, Emilie Hafner-Burton, et al. - At the United Nations, the United States May Not be as Isolated as It Thinks
Blog | Bridget Coggins, Julia Morse, et al. - Zombies Ahead: Explaining the Rise of Low-Quality Election Monitoring
Working Paper | Sarah Bush, Christina Cottiero, and Lauren Prather - Authoritarianism Could Poison AI
Blog | Eddie Yang - Small States are Defending Democracy
Blog | Jennie Barker
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Climate and Energy
- NATO Wants to Be a Leader on Climate Security: Here Are the Next Steps to Get There
Blog | Heidi Hardt and Jacqueline Burns - What Central America’s Past Conflicts over Hydropower Say About the Future of Decarbonization
Blog | Luis Rubén González Márquez - Five Questions on How a Conservation Market Could Protect the World’s Oceans
Blog | Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Christopher Costello, and Andrew J. Plantinga - Five Questions on Hydropower Disruption and Renewable Energy Development
Blog | Ishana Ratan
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Reflections on a Changing World
- As Others See Us: Reflections on Changing Views of the West
Commentary | Lindsay Shingler - Generation Z Faces a Troubled World
Commentary | Ty McGlynn
Talking Policy Podcast
- The State of the World
Five-Episode Miniseries (with Gov. Jerry Brown, Susan Shirk, and others) - Democracy and Its Discontents
Five-Episode Miniseries (with Marty Gilens, Steph Haggard, Simone Chambers, and others) - Stepping Back from the Nuclear Brink: A Talking Policy Roundtable
Alex Bell, Jerry Brown, and John Scott - Where Are We Now? Two Years Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Jesse Driscoll, Paul D’Anieri, Jess Peake, and Branislav Slantchev - How Should We Regulate Rapidly Changing AI Technologies?
Robert Trager