Triumph of politics over substance: Why the US-China Cyber Working Group will...
On April 13, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced to Chinese reporters that the US and China plan to create a working group on cybersecurity.[1] Presumably, the formation of this group would...
View ArticleShadow currency: how Bitcoin can finance terrorism
This week, the “underground” website known as “the Silk Road” made headlines when a DDoS attack brought the website’s servers crashing down. The Silk Road is known as the black market of the internet,...
View ArticleSeeking justice in post-conflict Syria
A man eats another’s heart, a camera memorializes the act, and the internet spreads news of the crime. The world cries for justice while Syria continues to bleed. While the desecration of the body of a...
View ArticleColombia’s NATO ambitions: a plausible pursuit
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos shocked the international community when he stated that he wished for Colombia to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Such designs were quickly...
View ArticleEdward Snowden, PRISM, and the false importance of “big data”
The media portrayal of Edward Snowden as a whistleblower ignores the fact that his actions have sold out his country and his future. Commentators both foreign and domestic have seized upon former Booz...
View ArticleManning, Snowden, and Ellsberg: Why one is not like the others
With the conviction of Pfc. Bradley Manning this week, the opportunity to analyze and ruminate on how the nature of American National Security, law, and civil liberties interacts again presents itself....
View ArticleThe beginning of the end?: the impact of Kenya’s potential withdrawal from...
Last week was an unprecedented one for the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the span of a few short days, a sitting deputy head of state of one nation was peaceably brought to stand trial in a...
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