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In this CSS Policy Perspective, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer and Andreas Wenger warn that policymakers and experts increasingly view artificial intelligence (AI) within the narrow context of great power competition. The authors argue that international science diplomacy could help change this situation. What is needed is a politically neutral hub for basic AI research, committed to the responsible, inclusive, and peaceful development and use of the new technology.

Previous research suggests that democratic regimes are particularly willing to contribute troops to UN peacekeeping operations as backing ‘liberal’ peacekeeping allows them to support the diffusion of liberal institutions. However, this article contends that in the period between 1999 and 2015, while democratic states were still more likely to make small contributions, non-democratic states were more likely to make contributions above 250 troops.

Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts introduces an innovative approach to resolving conflicts in polarized societies.

An increasingly complex security environment, strained national resources, and centrifugal tendencies on the federal level motivate EU member states and institutions to deepen their defense cooperation. The framework provided by the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) can serve this purpose – as long as its priorities focus on practical synergies instead of political symbolism

The two Korean states are currently on a course of rapprochement. This development has led to détente in the international crisis surrounding North Korea’s nuclear program. If this path of reconciliation is to be consolidated and a potentially enduring resolution of the Korean conflict achieved, both of the Koreas, as well as the other global parties to the conflict, must seize the opportunities arising from current domestic trends.