by Nikos Chatzis | 4 Nov, 2026 | Advanced Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility (AAM) (UAM), Advanced Technologies, Smart Infrastructure, Technology Ecosystems, Technology Evolution, Technology Transfer, The Techne–Phronesis Negotiation Framework™, UnManned Aerial Vehicles
This TPNF essay examines the technological, regulatory, operational, and educational challenges associated with integrating autonomous unmanned aircraft into civil airspace. It applies TPNF to explain how aviation organizations can transform autonomous capabilities into sustainable economic, operational, and societal value.
by Nikos Chatzis | 14 Jul, 2026 | Advanced Technologies, Contemporary Geopolitics, Strategic Resilience, The Techne–Phronesis Negotiation Framework™
The defining characteristic of strategic resilience in the twenty-first century is no longer the strength of isolated institutions, technologies, or states, but the resilience of the networks that connect them. The purpose of this essay is to explain why resilience should no longer be understood as the capacity of individual organizations or states to withstand shocks in isolation. Instead, resilience increasingly emerges from the quality of relationships linking governments, industries, universities, international organizations, technology firms, financial institutions, infrastructure providers, and civil society. Through the TPNF, resilience becomes a networked capability created through cooperation, technological innovation, institutional learning, and strategic governance operating within complex adaptive systems.