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February 25, 2015
AsiaLast week, the White House sponsored an international summit on strategies to counter violent extremism (CVE), focusing on groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda. Amon…
January 2, 2015
Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: German news magazine Der Spiegel published more documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The docum…
January 5, 2015
Happy New Year! Devoted readers of this blog will know that I generally loathe the annual end- and beginning-of-the-year roundups, lists, retrospectives, and prognostications. “Lame” is the only way …
January 7, 2015
CybersecurityOver the past few days, Net Politics has been examining the top five developments in cyber policy of 2014. Each cyber policy event has its own post, explaining what happened, what it all means, and i…
December 18, 2014
CybersecurityAfter weeks of speculation about who was responsible for the hacking of Sony, U.S officials are telling the press that North Korea was "centrally involved." Why the government now feels confident in…
August 6, 2014
Human RightsIn global governance, there are a couple of nettlesome questions of scope. First, how broadly should universal human rights norms be defined? For instance, one could focus on political and civil righ…
December 10, 2013
United StatesThere is no shortage of advice in the United States about how the Obama administration should approach Egypt. The familiar ring of policy prescriptions bouncing around the Beltway and beyond is eith…
October 24, 2013
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the Georgian presidential elections, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) report on Syrian chemical weapons, …
February 14, 2013
Sub-Saharan AfricaBritish, Irish, and Australian bookmakers will place odds on anything. They are already looking at possible successors to Pope Benedict XVI. The odds change by the minute, but the three favorites in…
January 16, 2013
Politics and GovernmentIt may seem non-controversial these days to suggest that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) are not exactly forces for democratic change. Much of Washington, which on…
