Seven new projects will examine critical policy challenges ranging from household finance and democratic leadership to Arctic geopolitics, electricity grids, long-term care, workplace technology, and the politics of extraction in the Amazon.

On May 7, the Institute of Global Politics convened a panel examining the geopolitical, environmental, and economic questions surrounding deep-sea mining.

Workshop participants explored the potential causes and pathways of land and space-based scenarios that might trigger a wider crisis in space and how to avoid conflict escalation in this domain.

As part of an IGP faculty grant-funded project on the impact of generative AI on democracy, Tamar Mitts and Rumela Sen hosted a workshop centered on comparative approaches to AI regulation, with a focus on India’s evolving regulatory framework.

Five inaugural grants were awarded to support innovative research on topics ranging from the geopolitics of space to the risks of generative AI and financial fraud.