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Are women less favorable toward immigration than men? In a new blog post, IGCC dissertation fellow Jieun Park of UCLA examines a case study of Japan to uncover how economic insecurity impacts women’s perceptions of labor-market newcomers: ucigcc.org/blog/how-gende…

Earlier this month, our Postdoctoral Fellows gathered to present their end-of-year research findings to an audience of leading social scientists. Read up on what this class of fellows presented in our news story wrapping up this year's conference: bit.ly/43CXwgV

China’s rise as a semiconductor juggernaut is about more than subsidies. IGCC dissertation fellow Ming-yen Ho of UC Berkeley describes the country’s competitive, decentralized, and misunderstood semiconductor industrial policy for our China Focus column: ucigcc.org/blog/the-accom…

This summer, join IGCC nonresident fellow Jimmy Goodrich for an in-depth training session unpacking China’s evolving science and technology policy landscape at UC San Diego for analysts and researchers. Registration closes July 14. More info: bit.ly/3Zf0xm9

The U.S. is falling behind as foreign aid cuts distract attention away from investments abroad as a way to win goodwill, promote interests, and counter China. Audrye Wong digs into U.S.-China competition for geoeconomic influence in the developing world: bit.ly/4kmWWLd

Digital technology is everywhere—and it knows no borders. How will the international community regulate it? In a new report, Peter Cowhey, Dean Emeritus at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, looks at how global tech governance is emerging in today's de-globalizing world: bit.ly/3ZQq59t

New on our Blog: IGCC student employee and 2025 UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy graduate Ty McGlynn offers a reflection on how Generation Z can politically engage with the world in an era of uncertainty: ucigcc.org/blog/generatio…

In a new essay for IGCC, Mónica Castillejos-Aragón (Mónica Castillejos-Aragón) of UC Berkeley Law reflects on the value of judicial independence and surveys the global struggle to defend this cornerstone of democratic governance: ucigcc.org/publication/th…

IGCC’s Public Policy and Nuclear Threats program is entering its third decade with a focus on training the next generation of nuclear policy experts to reduce the risks posed by weapons of mass destruction. Registration deadline: 6/30. More info here: ucigcc.org/training/ppnt/

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Christopher Ojeda (UC Merced Political Science) joins host Lindsay Shingler to discuss his new book, "The Sad Citizen", and answer the question: “What do we do when what’s good for democracy is bad for our mental wellbeing?” Listen now: ucigcc.org/podcast/sad-ci…

This half-day conference brought together IGCC and UCDC leadership, researchers, and staff from the UC Office of Federal Governmental Relations to discuss how to excel in the research-to-policy space. Read our news wrap of the event here: bit.ly/4jUKCkE

President Trump recently announced a deal to de-escalate U.S.-China tensions over trade. But as Rachel Ann Hulvey cautioned in an IGCC blog post, there is much more to the two rivals’ competition than trade. Read her analysis from earlier this year: bit.ly/44dcFa3

About a year ago, IGCC fellow Eleni Ekmektsioglou advised scholars that Cold War lessons may be insufficient to guide policy in a new nuclear age. Reread her argument that when it comes to nuclear strategy, we don’t know as much as we think we do: ucigcc.org/blog/we-dont-k…

Africa is grappling with the effects of decades of rising debt, and Russia is swooping in to strengthen its hand at the expense of the U.S. William Decourt and Spenser Warren discuss the battle for influence in Africa and the high geopolitical stakes: ucigcc.org/blog/russia-is…

Russian losses in Ukraine have exposed a stratified society whose manpower sustains the Kremlin’s goals of conquest. Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy) discusses ethnic hierarchies in Russia’s military and whether four years of war are changing things: bit.ly/4e2Cxc0

U.S.-China tensions, Russian and North Korean saber rattling, India-Pakistan hostilities, and Israel-Iran conflict underscore nuclear escalation risks in 2025. Re-listen to IGCC’s podcast roundtable from October about how the world might be able to reduce nuclear risks:

Earlier this year, we welcomed Maggie Peters, a professor of political science at UCLA to the formal IGCC network of scholars! Her research centers on the political economy of migration. Read more about Maggie and her work here: ucigcc.org/people/margare…

Today, IGCC hosted a workshop on the state of Chinese science, technology, innovation, and industrial policy in Washington, DC. The culmination of a three-year project, the discussions explored a transformational new phase of China’s economic development.