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February 27, 2020

Elections and Voting
Mobilizing the National Guard to Secure U.S. Elections

States are increasingly relying on the National Guard to provide cybersecurity in elections. As the 2020 election approaches, they will need to decide how to best fund and deploy their forces to prot…

Members of the Arizona National Guard.

January 10, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: 2019 Year in Review

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week”. This week’s post highlights the top news stories of 2019 and was compiled by Rebecca Turkington and Alexandra Bro. 

Women participate in a demonstration against gender violence, in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 6, 2019.

May 10, 2021

Cybersecurity
The Underbelly of Ransomware Attacks: Local Governments

Local governments are under siege by ransomware. A new set of recommendations released by the Institute for Security + Technology’s Ransomware Task Force seeks to address the problem.

Computer network equipment is seen in a server room.

November 22, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Down and Out in Durban: End of the Line for Kyoto?

Activists from the WWF demonstrate on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference COP16 in Cancun (Gerardo Garcia/Courtesy Reuters). As delegates from nearly 200 countries prepare to descend o…

Down and Out in Durban: End of the Line for Kyoto?

December 28, 2018

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2018

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Kofi Annan addresses a news conference UN headquarters in New York, 1997. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen.