Russia’s 2016 election interference operation challenged dominant assumptions about the nature of cyber conflict. That operation and others like it mark the emergence of what the authors call “masspersonal social…
Despite increased attention paid to Afghanistan and Ukraine over the past nine months, the focus of U.S. foreign policy must remain on China, the sole long-term competitor to the United…
Southeast Asia’s digital landscape is a pixelated patchwork of partners. As geopolitical tensions threaten a decoupling that will ripple through all aspects of technology including the rule-making frameworks that underpin…
Semiconductor chips are integral to every facet of contemporary life. COVID-19 related shortages have rocked critical supply chains. The international community’s chip reliance has raised economic and national security…
This article considers the ways that journalists cover cybersecurity incidents and convey technical material to general audiences. It describes how journalists have provided increasingly detailed and technical descriptions of these…
The Second Space Race primarily concerns economic and national security, and although many nations hope to contribute to the development of this space economy as well as to the establishment…
The staggering rise of cryptocurrencies poses several challenges for governments and central banks. Some countries are moving to implement their own digital cash in response to this phenomenon. China’s introduction…
Prior responses to infectious disease emergencies have been reactive and therefore suboptimal and often lagging. A proactive, policy-oriented approach focused on pathogen families most likely to cause a pandemic would…
On September 7, 2021, El Salvador became the first country to introduce bitcoin as legal tender after swift approval of the law only three months prior. However, Salvadoran citizens, multilateral…
Military machines can increasingly move, search for targets, and even kill without human control. Current autonomous weapons have typically been used for tactical defense, but the future is unclear. Because…
