3rd Annual Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia

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The Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance is grateful for the generous support of the Korea Foundation in making the 3rd Annual Conference on the Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia possible.
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Agenda:
00:00 Introduction and Welcome

4:21 Fireside Chat: The U.S. Presidential Election and the Geopolitics of Technology
Discussants: Colin Kahl, Stanford University; Matt Pottinger, Foundation for Defense of Democracies & Hoover Institution; Andrew Grotto, Stanford University

55:53 Technology and Great Power Competition: Views from the Region
Panelists: Mireya Solís, Brookings Institution; Victor Cha, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Jeremy Chang, Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET); Shihoko Goto, The Wilson Center

1:56:20 Geopolitics and the Semiconductor Supply Chain
Panelists: Bruce Andrews, Intel Corporation; Mark Lippert, Samsung Electronics; Paul Treadgold, Tokyo Electron; Claire Sanderson Hambrick, Industry Professional

3rd Annual Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia - Day One

Mother Nature, Bioweapons and Lab Accidents: Guarding Against the Next Global Biological Catastrophe

Assessing US-China Interaction at APEC | Brookings & CISAC

From Heroes to Machines? The History & Cultural Politics of AI Enabled Command in the United States

The Role of Israels Counter-Proliferation Policy in US-Israeli Relations

Support the Troops: Gender, Military Obligation, and the Making of Political Community

$Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency Speaker: Terrence Peterson Can efforts to counter a revolution also be revolutionary? The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. In this discussion of his new book, Terrence G. Peterson highlights how the conflict also quietly helped to transform the nature of modern warfare. The French war effort was never defined solely by repression. As this talk details, it also sought to fashion new forms of surveillance and social control that could capture the loyalty of Algerians and transform Algerian society. Hygiene and medical aid efforts, youth sports and education programs, and psychological warfare campaigns all attempted to remake Algerian social structures and bind them more closely to the French state. In tracing the emergence of such programs, Peterson reframes the French war effort as a radical project of armed social reform that sought not to preserve colonial rule unchanged, but to revolutionize it in order to preserve it against the global challenges of decolonization. As Peterson will make clear, French officers efforts to transform warfare into an exercise in social engineering not only shaped how the Algerian War unfolded from its earliest months, but also helped to forge a paradigm of warfare that dominated strategic thinking during the Cold War and after: counterinsurgency.$

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The Future of Nuclear Proliferation After Ukraine

The Role of Radiation Technologies in Linking Security and Health Needs

Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation | Julie George