Technology

One of the great challenges of cyberspace is defending freedom and human rights on the internet, all of which are in steady decline. In a decade, we have…

The term soft power was coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s as the ability of a country to influence other countries’…

In 2018, the Danish Government established a Consulate General in Palo Alto, California as part of the first-ever Danish Foreign and Security Policy Strategy. The Danish presence in California is…

An apocryphal story credits Einstein with saying that, if given an hour to solve a problem, he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem. Regardless of the attribution, the sentiment…

In November 2018, Mark Zuckerberg proposed a new “Supreme Court” for Facebook, the “Facebook Oversight Board,” which will handle content moderation issues. The proposal is a response to the…

Although the start of the new decade will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic, another important yet overlooked story from the first months of 2020 was the high-intensity warfare between…

Introduction Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, offer significant potential benefits for development. This is especially true in environments where transportation is costly, such as mountainous regions or areas with…

Crises tied to drinking water affordability, quality, and accessibility are on the rise in the twenty-first century in locations and economies where we might not expect them: cities in middle…

On February 11, 2020, the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) welcomed Hugo Slim, the head of policy at the International Committee of the…

On February 28, 2020, Dr. Ben Buchanan, a Senior Faculty Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, discussed challenges states face in navigating cyberwarfare as highlighted…