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Looking to Ocean Diplomacy for Ways to Regulate Space

October 4, 2022

Decades of evidence-based ocean diplomacy and multilateral science policy can offer useful lessons to the burgeoning field of Space Diplomacy, experts said at the latest Rethinking Diplomacy webinar.

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Former Duke Indermit Gill Appointed World Bank Chief Economist

July 26, 2022

Former Duke Sanford professor, Indermit Gill, was appointed World Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for International Development. Gill was an Associate Fellow of the Duke Center for International and Global Studies and the director of the Duke Center for International Development.

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NSPN Members Tackle Unresolved Challenges in the Final Frontier

June 24, 2022

With our partners of the National Science Policy Network (NSPN), we recently co-hosted the first-of-its-kind Space Diplomacy hackathon, where three teams pitched their ideas on how to solve the most urgent space issues. Read a summary about the event.

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The Future of Space Diplomacy: Interview with Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt

June 17, 2022

Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Fellow) spoke to Harvard International Review about the future of Space Diplomacy and the need of international norms to regulate the use of space by nation states and private-sector entities.

Anticipatory Diplomacy. By Amb. W.Robert Pearson. Duke Center for International and Global Studies

Anticipatory Diplomacy: A Modern Diplomacy for a Dangerous and Uncertain World

June 14, 2022

In this paper, Ambassador (ret.) W. Robert Pearson examines the principles and the methodology of "Anticipatory Diplomacy", an approach to diplomacy seeking "to anticipate issues that will be crises if we don’t act." Amb. Pearson is the founder of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program at Duke University Center for International & Global Studies.

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DUCIGS - ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

For DUCIGS and affiliated units, 2020-21 was a season as rich in programming, research, partnerships, student, and faculty support as in pre-pandemic years.

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Global Working Paper Series

A space for scholars from across the disciplines to explore international topics. Read submissions from Duke experts and affiliated scholars.​

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Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues

DUCIGS funded Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues are thematic working groups that are both interdisciplinary in their membership and student-driven in design. Read more.