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“Closing that Internet Up”: The Rise of Cyber Repression
Brandon Valeriano is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and author of Cyber War versus Cyber Realities on Oxford University Press. Allison Pytlak is a policy and advocacy specialist at...
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Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Wily World Leaders on the World Wide Web
Elena Goldstein is a senior at Columbia University and an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program. Today, if you search “Gollum” on Google, your results will...
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China’s Strategic Support Force: The New Home of the PLA’s Cyber Operations?
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. China’s military reforms, which have sped up since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, are making steady...
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India Takes a Step Toward Net Neutrality, Ignores the Millions of Unconnected
Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working on ICT and infrastructure regulatory and policy issues in the Asia Pacific. You can follow her @helanigalpaya. It’s done....
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The Real Reason to Like the President’s Cybersecurity Plan
Nathaniel Gleicher is head of cybersecurity strategy at Illumio, and was formerly director for cybersecurity policy on the staff of the National Security Council. President Obama’s Cybersecurity...
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The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Is a Victory for Common Sense and Transatlantic...
Alan Charles Raul is a partner in the Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice of Sidley Austin LLP. You can follow his group at datamatters.sidley.com. When the Court of Justice of the...
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Digital Protectionism? Or Label the U.S. Government Uses to Criticize Policy...
Susan Ariel Aaronson is Research professor of International Affairs at George Washington University, and GWU Cross-Disciplinary Fellow and the Carvalho Fellow at the Government Accountability Project....
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OSCE Agrees to New Confidence Building Measures. Pop the Champagne?
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Three weeks ago, the members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation...
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Journey to the East: Why Facebook Won’t Make it in China
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last month, Chinese propaganda officials rushed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s defense, ordering media...
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Social Media and the Gig Economy May Hold Solutions to the European Migrant...
Nick Ashton-Hart was the senior permanent representative of the Internet sector to the United Nations and its agencies and member states in Geneva until 2015 and remains active in international...
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A Legal Arms Race Threatens the Future of the Internet
Bertrand de La Chapelle and Paul Fehlinger are the co-founders of the global multistakeholder policy network Internet & Jurisdiction. On the Internet, 17th century principles of Westphalian...
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Dropping the Cyber Bomb? Spectacular Claims and Unremarkable Effects
Brandon Valeriano is a reader at Cardiff University and a fellow at the Niskanen Center, Heather Roff is a research scientist at the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University, and Sean...
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Risk-based Approach Essential to Taming Wave of Cybersecurity Regulation
Pamela S. Passman is the president and CEO of the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe), which recently published Cyber Risk: Navigating the Rising Tide of Cybersecurity Regulation. The...
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The White House Exaggerates the Benefits of the TPP to the Open Internet
Susan Aaronson is research professor of international affairs at George Washington University, and GWU cross-disciplinary scholar. Valeriya Denisova is a research assistant at GWU and a recent graduate...
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Making States Responsible for Their Activities In Cyberspace: The Role of the...
Annegret Bendiek is a senior associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). It’s cliché to say that we are increasingly dependent on internet-enabled technologies....
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California’s Gangs Go Digital and Global
Robert Muggah is co-founder and research director of the SecDev Foundation and the Igarapé Institute. He is co-editor of a new volume entitled Open Empowerment: From Digital Protest to Cyberwar that...
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Cyber Diplomacy with Africa: Lessons From the African Cybersecurity Convention
Mailyn Fidler is a Marshall Scholar studying international relations at the University of Oxford. You can follow her on Twitter @mailynfidler. Two years ago, the African Union (AU) adopted its...
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Leadership Change at Chinese Internet Regulator
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. In a surprise announcement at the end of June, Chinese authorities revealed that Lu Wei, China’s top...
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Why Democrats and Republicans Should Oppose Data Localization
Anupam Chander is Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Professor and Director of the California International Law Center at UC Davis School of Law. He is the recipient of a Google Research Award supporting...
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Disclosure of DNC Emails: Was Russia Making Up for the Fact It Got Caught?
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Identifying the responsible party for a cyber incident is always a challenge....
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