Global Technological Standards and Geopolitics

June 2023

Past Event

Global Technological Standards and Geopolitics

Past Event

Online Only

June 12, 2023

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June 2023

Past Event

Speakers:

Fredrik Erixon

Director, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)

Agatha Kratz

Director, Rhodium Group

Nigel Cory

Associate Director, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

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For decades, global technological standards have enabled the development of a thriving, innovative, and competitive ecosystem that has benefited markets and consumers worldwide. As the geopolitical race for leadership in critical technologies expands, nearly every major country is evaluating policy measures to expand its role in the development of global standards.

What are the key challenges the United States and other countries face? Should the international community maintain a global standardization system? What is needed to encourage robust continued participation in global standardization efforts?

June 2026

Virtual Event | Hudson Institute

Authoritarian Persistence in Latin America: What Should the US Do?

Featured Speakers:

Elliot Abrams

Daniel Batlle

June 2026

Virtual Event | Hudson Institute

Authoritarian Persistence in Latin America: What Should the US Do?

Please join Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle for a conversation with Elliott Abrams, whose leadership on Latin America policy stretches from his service as assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs under President Ronald Reagan to his role as special representative for Venezuela in the first Trump administration.

Featured Speakers:

Elliot Abrams

Daniel Batlle

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June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Spain’s Latin American Reckoning

Featured Speakers:

Julio Crespo MacLennan

Daniel Batlle

June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Spain’s Latin American Reckoning

Join Hudson as Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle sits down with Julio Crespo MacLennan, a historian and one of the leading scholars on Spain’s democratic transition and on Europe’s relationship with the wider world.

Featured Speakers:

Julio Crespo MacLennan

Daniel Batlle

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June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Growing the DIB: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary of War James Mismash

Featured Speakers:

Nadia Schadlow

James Mismash

June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Growing the DIB: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary of War James Mismash

Please join Hudson Institute for a fireside chat between Hudson Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Industrial Base Growth and Director of the Office of Small Business Programs James Mismash.

Featured Speakers:

Nadia Schadlow

James Mismash

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June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Winning the Innovation Competition

Featured Speakers:

Bryan Clark

Dan Patt

Emil Michael

June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Winning the Innovation Competition

Please join Hudson Institute Senior Fellows Bryan Clark and Dan Patt for a conversation with Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael about the Department of War’s efforts to bring AI to the battlefield and implement an innovation strategy that makes the most of America’s commercial and government research sectors.