Margaret E. Kosal

About

Margaret E. Kosal is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, affiliated with the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy at Georgia Tech. Her research explores the relationships among technology, strategy, and governance, with a focus on reducing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and understanding the role of emerging technologies for security. Her work aims to understand and explain the role of technology and technological diffusion for national security at strategic and operational levels, especially in a post-Cold War environment where advanced military power no longer guarantees security due to the proliferation of dual-use capabilities among nation-states and non-state actors. Her long-term goals include understanding the drivers of technological innovation and how technology influences national security and modern warfare, developing strategic approaches and policy options to enable U.S. dominance and limit proliferation of unconventional weapons. Her research considers the impact of nanotechnology, cognitive science, biotechnology, and converging sciences on security, deterrence, nonproliferation regimes, and programmatic choices, aiming to develop analytical frameworks for assessing new technologies' security implications and policy measures to prevent proliferation. Kosal has authored and edited numerous publications on these topics, including books on nanotechnology, disruptive…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Security
• Computer Science
• Business
• Law
• Public relations
• Engineering ethics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biology
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Neurotechnology and international security

  Politics and the Life Sciences · 2022 · 18 citations

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  In the past decade, international actors have launched "brain projects" or "brain initiatives." One of the emerging technologies enabled by these publicly funded programs is brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which are devices that allow communication between the brain and external devices like a prosthetic arm or a keyboard. BCIs are poised to have significant impacts on public health, society, and national security. This research presents the first analytical framework that attempts to predict…

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• Emerging Life Sciences and Possible Threats to International Security

  Orbis · 2020 · 12 citations

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• Shaping the future US bioeconomy through safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility

  Trends in biotechnology · 2023 · 10 citations

  Biomanufacturing practitioners and researchers describe the norms that should govern the growing, global field, to include safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility. These '4S Principles' should be broadly adopted so that the future of the field may provide the greatest benefits to society.

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• How COVID-19 is reshaping U.S. national security policy

  Politics and the Life Sciences · 2023-09-27 · 7 citations

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  In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is actively reshaping parts of its national security enterprise. This article explores the underlying politics, with a specific interest in the context of biosecurity, biodefense, and bioterrorism strategy, programs, and response, as the United States responds to the most significant outbreak of an emerging infectious disease in over a century. How the implicit or tacit failure to recognize the political will and political decision-making c…

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• Proliferation of Weapons- and Dual-Use Technologies

  Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications · 2021-01-01 · 5 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Kenneth S. Suslick

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  15 shared

• Shirley Nakagaki

  Universidade Federal do Paraná

  6 shared

• Scott R. Wilson

  Film Independent

  6 shared

• Dennis W. Smithenry

  Highland Community College - Illinois

  5 shared

• Jun-Hong Chou

  4 shared

• Neal A. Rakow

  3M (United States)

  4 shared

• Lawrence Rubin

  3 shared

• P. Bhyrappa

  3 shared

Awards & honors

• 2015 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
• 2014 Georgia Tech Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate R…
• 2012 Ivan Allen Jr Legacy Award
• 2010 INTAGO Faculty Award
• CETL Class of 1969 Teaching Scholar

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