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How Can Scientists Become Players in the Long Game of Policy Change?
“Policy entrepreneurs” often fly under the radar, developing policy ideas to solve problems over decades and surfacing with solutions at just the...
Assessing Innovation Hubs and Regional Innovation Engines: New Methods
In recent years, place-based innovation has attracted renewed attention from policymakers and major new funding, including over $80 billion in federal...
Disruptive Military Innovation and the Fate of Great Powers - with Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich
The Precision Warfare Revolution introduced by the U.S. military in the First Gulf War found the United States enjoying a near monopoly in this form...
Inspirations from European Technology Assessments: Institutions, Practices and Key Debates
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq
In The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve...
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
In the summer of 1941, Britain was struggling to combat Hitler’s powerful propaganda machine. British claims that Hitler was dangerous had little...
American Mother: Diane Foley’s Search for Justice in the Hostage-Taking and Murder of Her Son
In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who pleaded...
Authors & Insights: Alex Ward
Watch the McCain Institute’s latest installment of its book talk virtual series from Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. This event featured POLITICO National...
How Can Taxpayer-Funded Science Yield Drugs That Are Innovative and Affordable?
Many pharmaceutical breakthroughs can be traced to government-funded science. Sometimes this research ends up generating hugely profitable products...
Reinventing Participatory Technology Assessment: A Panel Discussion on pTA Innovations with Rising Scholars & Practitioners
In a letter last August, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) urged President Biden to “Issue a clarion call to...
Tracing Pathways to Positive Climate Futures
When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are bad: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us. These narratives are...
God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America
Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black...