{"272821":{"#nid":"272821","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nunn School Grad Students Present at IAC GTRIC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOn 31 January 2014, five graduate students in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs gave oral presentations at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/graduate\/IAC\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Paper Conference\u003C\/a\u003E as part of the annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/graduate\/GTRIC\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research \u0026amp; Innovation Conference\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRIC), a yearly event that captures and exhibits cutting-edge research conducted by graduate students at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAt this year\u2019s event, Nunn School participants presented on four different panels. PhD student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/phd\/taylor-smith\u0022\u003ETaylor Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, presenting on \u201cMilitary Technology Innovation in the Russia Federation,\u201d and candidate\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/content\/jonathan-huang\u0022\u003EJonathan Huang\u003C\/a\u003E, presenting on \u201cThe Dilemma of and Strategy for a Defense Technology First-Mover: An Opportunities Framework for Military Investments in Emerging S\u0026amp;T,\u201d addressed questions of national innovation systems. Smith\u0027s paper compared a well-known model of Soviet military technology innovation to the military research and development apparatus in contemporary Russia and concluded that pronounced similarities exist, indicating that the systemic inefficiencies characterizing Soviet innovation continue to plague Russia today. Huang\u2019s paper examined the dilemma a defense technology first-mover faces when investing in emerging technologies, explored the different strategies employed to cope with associated uncertainties, and provided an initial framework, based on the management of opportunities, to explain the directionality of such investments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOn issues concerning global markets and economics, Master\u0027s student Erin Sexton presented \u201cStorm Warnings: A Comparative Analysis of the International Climate of the 1930s and Today.\u201d Analyzing trends between the 1930s and today, she found several parallels in the international political economies of the two eras, the most significant of which being the multipolarity of the international system. She argued that this multipolarity makes the system more unstable and increases the likelihood of major global conflict occurring in the near future. Masters student Noah Solomon addressed energy issues and power industries in his paper \u201cBiofuels as a Solution to U.S. Navy Oil Dependence.\u201d He argued that in order to mitigate the costs of oil dependence, that Navy has in recent years made plans to jump start a biodiesel industry in the U.S., but such a plan failed to address factors such as the dependence of biofuel prices on petroleum products or the global nature of the oil market.\u0026nbsp; He suggested that the Navy is better served using less complex solutions, such as cooperation on sea lane protection and existing price controls for oil.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFinally, discussing the impact of technology in urban environments, PhD candidate\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/content\/mollie-taylor\u0022\u003EMollie Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E presented on \u201cCollaboration of Inventors across Cities and Time.\u201d During her presentation, Taylor discussed the two perspectives on the current wave of globalization: the vision that the world is becoming increasingly ``flat\u0027\u0027 as it globalizes, causing historical and geographical dividing lines to become irrelevant, and the argument that the world is becoming \u201cspiky\u201d and that innovation occurs in a small number of places. Using time series analysis of patent collaborations, she confirmed that the globalization leads to \u201cflatness\u201d and showed that cities that are more global are having fewer local collaborations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThis conference was sponsored by the Ivan Allen College Dean\u2019s Office.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"At this year\u2019s event, Nunn School participants presented on four different panels."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOn 31 January 2014, five graduate students in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs gave oral presentations at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/graduate\/IAC\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Paper Conference\u003C\/a\u003E as part of the annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/graduate\/GTRIC\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research \u0026amp; Innovation Conference\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRIC), a yearly event that captures and exhibits cutting-edge research conducted by graduate students at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On 31 January 2014, five graduate students in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs gave oral presentations at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Paper Conference."}],"uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2014-02-03 11:33:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:47","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"272811":{"id":"272811","type":"image","title":"GTRIC INTA students","body":null,"created":"1449244095","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:15","changed":"1475894961","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:21","alt":"GTRIC INTA students","file":{"fid":"198679","name":"image_1.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image_1_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image_1_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61898,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/image_1_0.jpeg?itok=dATbsdlO"}}},"media_ids":["272811"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8121","name":"gtRIC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVince Pedicino\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:vince.pedicino@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Evince.pedicino@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["vince.pedicino@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}