Today, the 🇪🇺 Competitiveness Council adopted the Council Recommendation on #ScienceDiplomacy.

🔬How can ERC frontier research help build trust, foster international cooperation and address global challenges?

Read the #ERCMagazine on science diplomacy 🔗 bit.ly/3GiZDyF

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The Human Architecture Behind Technological Power: The British Embassy and the Future of Technological Statecraft

Using the abrupt departure of a senior British diplomat in Washington as a case study, this piece examines a growing reality of the AI era: advanced technological statecraft is increasingly constrained not by technological capability itself, but by institutional continuity, trust, governance capacity, and the fragile human networks sustaining alliance systems.

https://lpixa.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/the-human-architecture-behind-technological-power-the-british-embassy-and-the-future-of-technological-statecraft/

Beyond Hostility: Pakistan, India, and the Strategic Logic of an Emerging World Order - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig Every few years, whenever the international system begins to reorganize itself under the pressure of great-power competition, technological disruption, economic realignment, and strategic uncertainty, South Asia is compelled to revisit an old but unavoidable question! “Can Pakistan and India ever move beyond perpetual rivalry and enter an era of strategic

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Data is concentrated in a few hands and history explains why.

ERC-funded research led by Simone Turchetti (@OfficialUoM), shows how decades of data systems built in the West still shape who controls and benefits today.

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A world of data in a few hands

Drawing on the ERC-funded research project NEWORLDatA, Simone Turchetti explains why EU science dip

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AI Augmented Economic Diplomacy – Operational Framework for Non-Technical Audiences

This paper presents a practical operational framework for AI augmented economic diplomacy using real world diplomatic functions to examine how artificial intelligence may enhance reporting, coordination, continuity, and institutional awareness without eroding the human judgment, accountability, mentorship, and expertise required for durable governance, competitiveness, and coherent statecraft.

https://lpixa.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/ai-augmented-economic-diplomacy-operational-framework-for-non-technical-audiences/

AI Can Scale Knowledge. Can Institutions Still Scale Judgment?

AI may enhance institutional performance, but excessive automation risks eroding the developmental pathways through which judgment, expertise, and accountability are formed. Using diplomatic economic affairs as a model, the framework introduced argues that competitiveness, governance, and statecraft ultimately depend upon preserving human continuity, mentorship, and judgment.

https://lpixa.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/ai-can-scale-knowledge-can-institutions-still-scale-judgment/

🌊 The High Seas Treaty isn’t just about protecting oceans.

Alice Vadrot (@univienna) shows science became part of the negotiations, shaped by power, access, and inequality.

Who produces knowledge shapes who benefits.

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Who controls the science of the high seas?

When diplomats finalised the UN’s landmark BBNJ treaty on high-sea biodiversity, it was widely hail

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Connect the Dots: Allies Build an Innovation Order Without Washington

For decades, U.S. leadership in science and technology was structural, not asserted. That foundation is now weakening as allies build durable frameworks for research, standards, AI governance, and industrial coordination without Washington at the center. The Canada–Germany Digital Alliance illustrates a broader shift toward diversified, interoperable ecosystems where American participation remains valuable, but no longer indispensable.

https://lpixa.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/connect-the-dots-allies-build-an-innovation-order-without-washington/

🧳 🌏 Last month, a delegation from #MPIM and #DKRZ visited key research partners in Singapore, Shanghai, & Beijing.🇸🇬🇨🇳 The trip highlighted strong synergies and laid the groundwork for future collaboration in #ClimateModeling, impact assessment, and #AI-driven innovation.🧠 It reinforced the value of sustained partnerships in advancing climate research and supporting societal resilience—and of science in connecting people from different parts of the world. 💫
#ClimateScience #ScienceDiplomacy

In the new ERC Magazine, Prof. Rebecca Adler-Nissen (@koebenhavns_uni) explores how diplomacy plays out on public feeds - shaped by platforms, visibility & tech power - and what this means for global influence and #ScienceDiplomacy ➡️ https://bit.ly/42yukr4

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Hashtags and handshakes: diplomacy in the age of platforms

Diplomacy has absorbed digital platforms into its rituals - while facing new risks, new power strug

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