Diplomacy

And very simply to answer your question, I have to also admit that while I have my day-to-day role as the head of TDSG or Teaching Research Design Group at the Department of Engineering here at Oxford.

I also co-chair the Engineering Professors Council Complex System Initiative, co-lead the Royal Society UK Academy Science and Tech Diplomacy Project and And I am an honorary and visiting professor at multiple universities like the UCL Center for Engineering Education, the Indian universities like SRM, and I do a lot of other things like public engagement talks and so on and so forth.

I am actually listing them so that the audience is clear about, okay, at this juncture of my life, at one particular point of time, I will prioritize what is important.

It probably sometimes it is based on the academic term.

so it also has basically changed how i approach academic innovation because in universities uh again like i've mentioned and touched upon we begin with what the institution is able to provide so entrepreneurship and being surrounded by entrepreneurs have encouraged the reverse equation for me what does a learner actually need and how can we create something that is useful, accessible and capable of operating at scale and sustainably without thinking about what is available, thinking about how can we navigate the current or archaic structures to be able to build i think building something without necessarily needing to break something is also very important because we cannot break everything as much as radical and revolutionary it sounds it is also good to think about be practical in life right Engineering education definitely needs a revolution, but sadly and unfortunately, the systems in the world is such that we have to be happy or we have to deal with an evolution.

So entrepreneurship has helped me deal with revolution and evolution, I would say, and when to pick and choose and when to combine both or find a middle ground.

And that's where I think being involved in Diplomacy Project has helped me, I think, develop those skills and understand world from a diplomatic perspective, because as much as systems thinking is what drives me technically and how my thinking gets framed, Diplomacy is what helps me deal with all kinds of stakeholders with, I think, very varying, diverse and contradictory interest in conflicts.

Can you tell me what are the other exciting projects or future plans that you have in store?

He has no clear way out.

He need to have, uh, more people on the battlefield.

Because we don't have to, to, you know, stop Putin politically, diplom- diplomatically, there is a kind of high risk that war will become even, even broader.

It will affect, uh, Europe directly.

Last month, the Russian military tested how a mass mobilization would look in Kaliningrad, a Russian region situated between NATO members Lithuania and Poland.

In any case, let's figure out what's going on with the tariffs this time.

We're joined this morning by Kyle Handley, Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego.

Welcome, Kyle.

Thank you.

We're talking about the trade war between the US and Canada, something that would've sounded unbelievable a few years ago, but here we are.

Uh, and what it means for our economy, for consumers, for the security of the United States.

We've got Kyle Handley, associate professor of economics at UC San Diego, also director of the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy there.

We've got Daniel Derocher, international trade reporter with Politico, and we've got Matina Stevis Gridneff, Canada bureau chief with The New York Times.

[laughs] And this girl, like, Kayden is very, like, Mr., he's very Mr.

Diplomacy.

That's what we call him, and he doesn't really like a whole lot of confrontation, and he doesn't like a whole lot of nothing, you know? Just very much like, "Okay, you know, I'm just gonna sit back here in the background.

Yes, this person is doing something to me, but I'm just gonna ignore this." Like, he, he would never confront that person and be like, "Hey, you're gonna knock it off." So his friend Willow, she does not take no mess.

The strategy, of course, is to get them to keel to the pressure and to come to the negotiating table.

But right now, Diplomacy is effectively stalled, according to President Trump.

No negotiations are underway.

The Strait of Hormuz, of course, is a strategic center of gravity.