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Energy at the Center of 21st Century Geopolitics: Five Minutes with Russian and Central Asian Energy Policy Expert Thane Gustafson

GJIA: Energy has become the symbol of 21st century geopolitics, with growing interest being drawn to Russia and Central Asia as suppliers of oil for Western countries. How would…

April 7, 2013

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Why the Economy and Not North Korea Will Be Park Geun-hye’s Biggest Challenge

While North Korea may be adept at stealing the media spotlight, the bread and butter challenges facing South Korea’s economy will shape the core of Park’s agenda – jobs and…

March 27, 2013

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The Key Terrain of Cyber

It is said that “cyber” is distinct from other domains in that it is created by humans and does not necessarily have physical manifestations.1 The legacy domains of air, sea,…

March 27, 2013

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It’s Time for an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Contractors

For the past seven years my organization, Human Rights First, has been working on several fronts to address private security contractor abuses and impunity.  We have advocated…

March 26, 2013

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Unraveling Bangladesh’s ICT and the Shahbag Protests: Injustice in the Making

If the actions of the ICT and the Shahbag protests continue in their present form, then justice risks being fully usurped by vengeance and dirty politics. The Shahbag protests…

March 25, 2013

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What Ethical Lessons Can America Learn From the Iraq War?

This does not bode well for the future implementation of American geopolitical strategy. Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, one disturbing fact may be that neither the public…

March 25, 2013

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Achieving International Cyber Stability

New inventions often generate new problems. Information technology, the Internet, digital networks, cyberspace—whatever the preferred appellation—is no different. Cyber crime…

March 23, 2013

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Global Fight Against Cybercrime: Undoing the Paralysis

As the Internet exploded across the globe in the mid-1990s, the Council of Europe was the only intergovernmental treaty organization to recognize that “only a binding…

March 23, 2013

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Leadership and Responsibility for Cybersecurity

According to Darwin, “it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able…

March 23, 2013

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Congressional Oversight of Hostilities in the Fifth Domain: Cyber Conflict and the War Powers Resolution

Since 1973, Congress has claimed the right to terminate military engagements under the War Powers Resolution (WPR).1 Beginning with Richard Nixon, whose veto had to be overturned…

March 23, 2013