A week is a long time in politics, or so the old cliché goes, and in Trump’s America that has never been truer. Blink and you’ll miss the next tariff announcement or the next diplomatic tension. It was amidst this backdrop that Glenn Tiffert visited Dublin last week to meet with government departments, Research Ireland and universities to talk research security and geopolitics. Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a think-tank out of Washington, DC and Stanford University, California, founded by former Republican US President Herbert Hoover. He oversees topics related to sensitive research in critical technologies…

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