Guest Editorial: AAAS Science & Diplomacy

Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, rapid technological change, and transnational challenges such as climate change and global health, science and technology have moved to the center of diplomatic practice. While they are increasingly regarded as core national assets, their advancement nonetheless depends on international cooperation—through research collaboration, global talent mobility, and open science—making diplomacy essential not only to foreign policy, but to scientific progress itself. Against this backdrop, science diplomacy has come to be seen as a key instrument for advancing both national interests and international cooperation…..