Jonathan Dawes

Oct 17, 2024 | sciencediplomacy.org | Jonathan Dawes |Karen Salt |Christopher Smith |Paul Dufour

New Frontiers in Science Diplomacy was written during a “golden age” of science diplomacy that lasted almost four decades following the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement in 1979.1 That era has ended abruptly, and we are now witnessing dramatic changes in geopolitics combined with disruptions from the pandemic, rapid technological change, economic competition with tariffs and sanctions, climate change, uncontrolled migration, political polarization, and wars.

Oct 17, 2024 | sciencediplomacy.org | Jonathan Dawes |Karen Salt |Christopher Smith |Joy Zhang

When the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Royal Society published New Frontiers in Science Diplomacy1 in 2010, it was unimaginable that, in twelve years, science diplomacy would be bound up in the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II. It was unthinkable that science diplomacy would have to respond to the challenges of survival, rather than engage with the prospects of human development.