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July 9, 2021

Space
Five Movies Worth Watching About UFOs

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about UFOs and aliens.

Movie posters in black frames. From left: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (a UFO shines a beams light onto a dark road); The Day the Earth Stood Still (a robot shoots a laser toward the U.S. Capitol Building as a woman screams); and District 9 (a sign in the foreground reads, "No Humans Allowed," as a spaceship hovers over a slum in the background).

November 13, 2020

Transition 2021
Transition 2021: When Presidents Don’t Concede

Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: Trump puts the transition process in limbo and Biden begins building his team. 

President-Elect Joe Biden stands behind a podium with the words "Office of the President Elect."

September 14, 2016

United States
We Are Protecting the Internet, Not Giving It to the United Nations

Byron Holland is president and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the .ca domain. Like many foreigners, I follow U.S. politics closely. What happens in Washington, DC…

CFR Cyber Net Politics IANA Transition Ted Cruz ICANN

December 22, 2015

Cybersecurity
The Top Five Cyber Policy Developments of 2015: The WSIS+10 Review

Over the next few days, Net Politics will countdown the top five developments in cyber policy of 2015. Each policy event will have its own post, explaining what happened, what it all means, and its i…

CFR Cyber Net Politics WSIS+10 Internet Governance

December 14, 2015

South Africa
WSIS+10: In Internet Governance, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Byron Holland is the CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the .ca domain. A decade ago, a landmark summit was held in Geneva and Tunis to discuss how the digital divide…

CFR Cyber Net Politics WSIS+10 Internet Governance