Science, Technology, and Public Policy

"One of the dramas playing out this month in New York at the 2015 Review Conference for parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) concerns the future of discussions on establishing the weapons of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East..."

"Washington needs to make a decision about its foreign-policy priorities, if tensions in eastern Ukraine are not reduced. Giving the events in Ukraine priority over all other international developments is a hazardous strategy. Negotiations have gotten us nowhere, and way more assertive steps against Russia are not likely to make Putin give in, since he seems to be determined not to lose his influence over eastern Ukraine and eager to demonstrate Russia's power."

Dr. Eugene Kogan examines the West's approach to Iran and Syria through the lens of coercive diplomacy. Both cases, he argues, offer a chance to revitalize coercion as a tool of American diplomacy.

Everywhere I turn, whether it is to trendy new magazines like Wired or Internet, or to the mesmerised users of the equipment at the latest hot spot in town, the Cybersmith, where access to state-of-the-art cyberspace technologies can be rented, or even while lurching along the Infobahn myself, I am bombarded with 'data' that proclaims the arrival of a new community in cyberspace.