Category: Online Archive

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A Balkanized Internet? The Uncertain Future of Global Internet Standards

The Internet is at a crossroads. Today, it is generally open, interoperable and unified. Any Internet user can exchange email with more than two billion other global Internet…

March 23, 2013

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The Implications of Mandates in International Cyber Affairs

Creating an international cyber governance and security regime faces two critical challenges: jurisdiction-shopping by nations for friendly venues to discuss and promote their…

March 23, 2013

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China’s Perceptions of Cyber Security

Interest and research in cybersecurity issues began in China in the 1980s. In April 1987, retired Major Shen Wei- guang published the essay “The Harbingers of Information…

March 23, 2013

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Confidence-Building Measures and the Future of the Global Information Infrastructure

Creating confidence-building measures in the information sphere has become a major foreign policy priority for many states.1 Confidence-building measures and other collaborative…

March 23, 2013

Conflict & Security
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Introduction: Building Trust in Cyberspace

In 2007 Georgetown University established the CyberProject under the auspices of the Institute for Law, Science & Global Security. The CyberProject seeks to hone the…

March 23, 2013

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Use of Force & Cyber Operations by Catherine Lotrionte

Cyberspace, however, can also be used by states to conduct a war without ever needing to engage in kinetic military operations. In 2007, ethnic tension escalated between native…

March 23, 2013

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Multilateral Approaches for Improving Global Security in Cyberspace

Effective cyber security requires that national governments, private companies, and non-governmental organizations work together to understand threats in cyberspace and to share…

March 22, 2013

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Climate Change, Conflict, and Human Rights: Nexus or Nonissue?

I.  The Science of Global Climate Change Global Warming Earth’s average temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years.[i]  Twenty of the warmest…

February 27, 2013

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Why the United States is not Destined to Decline: An Interview with Dr. Robert Lieber

GJIA: Dr. Lieber, could you please elaborate a bit on the argument you make in your book about why America’s decline is not inevitable as some scholars suggest? RL: The…

February 26, 2013

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Not So Fast: Pyongyang’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

The production of nuclear materials and their eventual weaponization, coupled with the complexities of the delivery systems, guidance sets and myriad other components makes this…

February 20, 2013