February 3, 2020
CybersecurityMany universities are starting to include cybersecurity as a course of study. While there is a high degree of variation between the selected readings of the syllabi of cybersecurity courses across di…
October 7, 2019
Global GovernanceThe 1884 International Meridian Conference gave the world standard time and constituted a seminal moment in the history of globalization.
September 3, 2019
United StatesThis is a guest post by Brian Myers, a graduate student at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. While the U.S.-China trade war has cast a pall over the previous rosy outlook for g…
August 20, 2019
Democratic Republic of CongoThe proliferation of disinformation online amidst the DRC’s outbreak of the Ebola virus is a serious threat to global health. Efforts to curb bad information and conspiracy theories on social media a…
August 7, 2019
Election 2020Update: Kirsten Gillibrand announced on August 28, 2019, that she was ending her campaign. It has been a while since Americans have elected successive presidents from the same state. Not since Nov…
June 14, 2019
United StatesThe United States Army celebrates its 244th birthday today. If you see an active duty, former, or retired member of the United States Army today, wish their service Happy Birthday. The Army websit…
December 17, 2018
ChinaChina's increasing investments in AI across the African continent, especially in countries with poor human rights record, should be treated with caution.
August 23, 2018
United KingdomThere are about 260,000 to 280,000 Jews in the United Kingdom, and about 2.8 million Muslims--ten times as many, or more. So what? So this gives us a further insight into the anti-Semitism of Labo…
December 5, 2012
Sub-Saharan AfricaLawyers can be improbable heroes, but Arthur Chaskalson was one. He used the law to hobble apartheid and subsequently helped author a post-apartheid legal system that subordinated the parliament to …
June 12, 2018
Palestinian TerritoriesI’ve written many times about the British royal family’s remarkable record of refusing to make an official visit to Israel while making scores of visits to Arab capitals. That will change in a matter…