Program IV
Governance & Diplomacy
Boards · multilateral institutions · Track II dialogue
Active research questions
Questions in development, with the current stage and intended publication format. Dates remain unannounced unless stated.
What coordination infrastructure does the AI labor transition require between states, when national workforce coalitions stop at the border?
How should international education and credentialing standards adapt when the half-life of skills is set by model releases?
What governance infrastructure supports cross-jurisdictional coordination on technology and AI when no single regulator has authority?
How can Track II convenings be structured to produce institutionally consequential outputs rather than commentary?
How do institutions translate dialogue into structured agreement at decision-making scale?
Broader lines of inquiry
- What governance infrastructure supports cross-jurisdictional coordination on AI when no single regulator has authority?
- How can Track II convenings be structured to produce consequential outputs rather than commentary?
- What does networked multilateralism look like in practice for problems that exceed any single state's reach?
- How do institutions turn dialogue into structured agreement at decision-making scale?
Image credits
- Governance & Diplomacy
- General view of a meeting during European Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas’s visit to Germany, Berlin, September 22, 2026. Photo: Kyriakos Samartzidis / European Commission. © European Union, 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized for web presentation.