Following a stint advising the US Department of Defense on warfare’s AI-inflected future, political science professor and Perry World House director Michael C. Horowitz is back at the helm of Penn’s “home for global policy engagement.” In February 2023 the United States issued a declaration outlining how militaries should develop and deploy autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI)…
Perry World House’s (PWH) fourth and final conference of the academic year—this one on human rights and global justice—kicked off on Wednesday, April 16. PWH Executive Director Marie Harf opened the conference by noting that “the world is experiencing unprecedented levels of displacement driven by conflict, economic insecurity and instability, and the impacts of climate change.”…
In a conversation at Perry World House event on ‘Common Sense Diplomacy,’ Penn President Emerita Amy Gutmann and former trustee chair David L. Cohen shared insights and experiences. The event, titled “Common Sense Diplomacy,” featured Gutmann, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, and former U.S. ambassador to Canada David L. Cohen, a Penn Carey Law alum, former…
As the Trump administration seeks to develop its national security and defense strategies, eyes are on how Washington will interact with the vast Indo-Pacific region. Regional actors are interested in the future of minilateral groupings like the Australia-UK-U.S. trilateral security partnership (AUKUS) and the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. security alliance (the Quad), how tariffs will be implemented against…
Perry World House, the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative, the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at Penn Carey Law School were thrilled to host researchers from across the University of Pennsylvania for an in-depth discussion of key issues surrounding the governance…
With research agendas on climate change, democracy, human rights, and security, Perry World House convened a high-level workshop on March 18, to develop policy innovations and research solutions to this multidisciplinary dilemma. Featuring policymakers, practitioners and academics from world-renowned institutions and representing a variety of countries and contexts, the discussions explored solutions to critical questions such as:…
After a “super year” of elections in 2024 – more than 1.6 billion people cast ballots in 74 national elections globally – many are spending 2025 assessing the health of democracy around the world. The early returns are worrisome. In many places autocratic leaders are tightening their grip on power and democratic backsliding seems to be…
The first-year Penn Medicine student and graduate associate at Perry World House draws her inspiration from her family’s lived experience. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Cambridge on a Marshall Scholarship, Bayan Galal says her master’s in population health sciences gave her the big-picture view to complement her family’s lived experience. Galal…
The fourth-year international relations student is researching Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy, with a summer spent talking with taxi drivers and U.S. ambassadors on the ground in Tashkent. Now a fourth-year, Schrier’s experience as a Perry World House Student Fellow has given him insight into possible career paths. He will be attending the Johns Hopkins…
While there are always points of uncertainty for foreign policy during any presidential transition, the signals being sent by the incoming Trump administration’s foreign policy team are more reassuring than in the first term, members of a Perry World House expert panel said during a public forum this week. The panel, titled “Foreign Policy Priorities for the…