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Container Ship

AP/Steve Helber

Analysis & Opinions - The Security Times

Cracking China

| February 2022

Will China succeed in what some call its grand strategy of displacing American power? Whichever scenario emerges also depends on the strategy the US chooses in response, rites Joseph Nye.

smart phone

Flickr CC/Kārlis Dambrāns

Analysis & Opinions - Project Syndicate

Our AI Odyssey

| Nov. 26, 2021

The powerful effects of artificial intelligence are already being felt in business, politics, medicine, war, and almost every other domain of twenty-first century life. For all of its positive potential, the technology presents significant risks that are best addressed sooner rather than later.

A worker helps to pump gas

AP/Chris Carlson

Analysis & Opinions - Harvard Law Today

Is the U.S. in a Cyber War?

    Author:
  • Jeff Neal
| July 14, 2021

In the wake of a series of damaging cyber intrusions on private businesses controlling critical pieces of U.S. infrastructure, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Lecturer Juliette Kayyem says that countering the growing threat will require erasing the "legal fiction" that cyberattacks are different than physical attacks on American civilians.

Computer code on monitors

AP/Pavel Golovkin

Analysis & Opinions - Project Syndicate

What Did Biden Achieve in Geneva?

| July 07, 2021

Even if formal cybersecurity treaties are unworkable, it may still be possible to set limits on certain types of civilian targets, and to negotiate rough rules of the road. Whether U.S. President Joe Biden succeeded in launching such a process at his meeting last month with Russian President Vladimir Putin may become clear soon.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James

AP/Kathy Willens, File

Analysis & Opinions - The Washington Post

'Grassroots' Bot Campaigns are Coming. Governments Don't Have a Plan to Stop Them.

| May 20, 2021

Henry Farrell and Bruce Schneier argue that organizations that deliberately fabricate citizen voices shouldn't just be subject to civil fines, but to criminal penalties. Businesses that hire these organizations should be held liable for failures of oversight as well.