Post by Francesco Lapenta

Grateful to be featured in the latest edition of Global Perspectives by the Hanns Seidel Foundation is now online. This issue explores a remarkable range of questions shaping today's international landscape: from Pope Leo XIV's first reflections on human dignity in the age of technology, to Europe's critical minerals strategy, Africa's changing geopolitical agency, security and resilience in Europe, and the governance challenges emerging from a rapidly transforming international order. I am pleased to be featured in the "Who is...?" section, where I discuss my work on the governance of emerging technologies and the institutional implications of artificial intelligence for diplomacy and public decision-making. The questions that interest me most no longer fit comfortably within established disciplines or singular political visions. Increasingly, my work focuses on the conversations that become possible only when different governments, diplomats, scientists, engineers, philosophers and technology leaders begin working on the same problem together. Not because interdisciplinarity is an ideal, but because reality no longer respects the boundaries between our institutions, our disciplines or our sectors. We are entering a historical period in which technology, ecosystems, economics, security and diplomacy are no longer parallel domains but different expressions of the same interconnected underlying system. Our institutions have yet to make that transition . As technological systems such as AI but not only AI. become part of our complex collective decision-making infrastructure, governance itself must evolve to meet a fundamentally different operating environment. My thanks to the editorial team at the Hanns Seidel Foundation for the opportunity to contribute to this edition alongside such a diverse set of perspectives on global affairs. And for inviting me to contribute to some remarkably well-organised and genuinely multi-stakeholder conversations on democracy, resilience and governance. The full newsletter is well worth reading for anyone interested in the intersection of geopolitics, technology and international governance. https://lnkd.in/dckr8vvw