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March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | General William Lord, Commander, Air Force Cyberspace Command |
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| Presider: | Colonel Jeffrey B. Kendall, USAF, Military Fellow, U.S. Air Force, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
This roundtable dicussion is joined by Major General Bill Lord, who is the commander of the Air Force Cyberspace Command.
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August 21, 2007
| Author: | Joshua Davis |
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Must Read
Wired's Joshua Davis reports on a rogue computer network that crashed Estonia's Internet, launching what he calls Web War I.
See more in Europe/Russia, Northern Europe, Defense Technology
December 2007
| Author: | Shane P. Courville |
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Must Read
The Center for Strategy and Technology suggests that the Air Force continue to anticipate and develop countermeasures to emerging threats in order to proactively protect and dominate the cyberspace domain of the future.
See more in United States, Defense Strategy
March 18, 2008
| Authors: | Carin Zissis Preeti Bhattacharji |
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Backgrounder
Beijing has pursued increasing media regulations under President Hu Jintao. But as a flourishing China expands its international influence, many of its citizens hunger for a free flow of information.
See more in China, Information & Communication
March 11, 2008
| Authors: | Michelle Smith, Research Associate Charles D. Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
Michelle Smith and Charles D. Ferguson evaluate Sarkozy's nuclear deals in the Middle East.
See more in France, Middle East, Energy, Proliferation
February 27, 2008
| Author: | Greg Bruno, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Foreign governments, non-state actors, and criminal networks are increasingly targeting the computerized infrastructures of Western powers, leading some experts to predict a new era of cyber-based warfare.
See more in United States, Defense Technology, Intelligence, Wars and Warfare
February 8, 2008
Podcast
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
See more in U.S. Election 2008
January 31, 2008
| Speakers: | Jeff Jarvis, Author, Buzzmachine; Director, New Media Program, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism John Palfrey, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School |
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| Presider: | Michael Moran, Executive Editor, CFR.Org |
Transcript
Panels discuss the states that filter internet content to stop citizens from accessing certain websites.
See more in Health, Science, and Technology, Information & Communication
January 31, 2008
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Daily Analysis
As debate over changes to an expanded domestic-spying program rages in Congress, the future of foreign intelligence gathering is in question.
See more in United States, Intelligence, Health, Science, and Technology
December 26, 2007
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Daily Analysis
Looking to broaden its reach and control its message, the U.S. federal government is increasingly turning to the blogosphere.
See more in United States, Health, Science, and Technology
Elections (3/22): Israeli politics expert David Makovsky tells cfr.org's Bernard Gwertzman next week's vote will likely bring a coalition goverment to power led by the centrist Kadima Party.
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Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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