BY CONNIE L. MCNEELY AND JONG-ON HAHM As science and technology-based innovations have driven economic success, countries around the world have sought ways to fuel innovation and increase the conditions and factors that promote its growth. In the accompanying literature, innovation refers not merely to initial creativity, invention, or knowledge diffusion, but rather to the [...]
BY LISA M. FREHILL AND CONNIE L. MCNEELY Scientific collaboration is a key feature of the world’s innovation-driven knowledge economy. Indeed, collaboration is fundamental to how knowledge is created, diffused, and applied within and across countries today. The innovation process itself is not merely marked by collaboration at different levels of analysis, but is virtually [...]
BY STEPHEN RUTH If one were setting up a rural wireless project in a developing nation nearly all site options would be easier than the rugged upper mountains of central Nepal, near the famous 27 thousand foot Annapurna range. Yet a very small, dedicated cadre from the remote village of Nangi began a process over [...]
BY SONIA BEN OUAGHRAM-GORMLEY On December 20, 2011, the press announced that the US government had requested two scientific journals – Science and Nature – to refrain from publishing a full account of an experiment that increased the transmissibility of bird flu virus H5N1.1 Government concerns that bioterrorists might use published data on the experimental details [...]
BY CHAITANYA RAVI AND NAYANTARA SHEORAN In 1988, the Soviet Union committed to build nuclear reactors in Kundankulam, a coastal village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, under an inter-governmental agreement.1 The project was immediately opposed by local fishing communities, farmers and nuclear activists – as it was proposed that water to cool [...]
BY ALLISON MACFARLANE Although touted as looming for the last ten years, the nuclear renaissance has failed to materialize in any substantial way in the United States and Europe. New nuclear build is concentrated in a few countries, notably China, India, and Russia. But in the last five years a new group of nuclear “wannabes” [...]
BY EVA BUSZA1 In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of a core group of states from the Global South which are on track to become the future center of global economic dynamism and power: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).2 Today, these countries account for approximately 40 per cent of the [...]
BY BRIAN FINLAY Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history — the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up. Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist [...]
BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA 1 The last two decades have witnessed fundamental shifts in international economic dynamics and the gradual reshaping of global political relationships and collaborations. In particular, emerging powers in the global south are now playing a much more prominent role in the global economy and are beginning to rewrite transnational political frameworks. As their [...]
BY TERRENCE LYONS In April 2011, the Center for Global Studies (CGS), George Mason University, sponsored a conference on Emerging Donors: Shifting Agendas in Development and Security. This conference brought together academics, researchers, and practitioners to investigate one of the central questions relating to one aspect of South-South relationships. This conference followed a 2010 CGS [...]