Africa and the Monopolization of GM Technology
Amid the Green Revolution of the mid-20th century and the growing voice of global actors, innovations across the agricultural sector gave hope to the idea of en...
Category: Science and Technology
Washington’s growing “crypto caucus”
As US President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill was on the verge of passing Congress late last year, Republican Patrick McHenry from North Carolina t...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Approaches to Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Introduction The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric dam under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. Upon completion, t...
Facebook’s Australian News Ban: Implications for Freedom of Political Communication
As part of the backlash against the Australian government’s deliberation over whether Facebook should pay media outlets to use their news content in February th...
Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception
“Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was meant to put a name to what felt like a new and alarming trend in political di...
Nuclear Pacific: Ballistic Missile Defenses Drive an Arms Race in the Pacific
American military leaders’ argument is simple: Pacific adversaries (particularly North Korea) have large and growing ballistic missile arsenals. To combat this ...
The Global Effort for Vaccine Distribution
At the end of February 2021, 2.495 million people had passed away as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Over the past year, public health officials have trie...
Government Surveillance and the Right to Privacy in the 21st Century
The right to privacy has existed in international law since 1966, but the improved capacity of governments’ surveillance and spying software in the past decade ...
Internet Blackouts as a Political Tool in Kashmir, India
The increasing availability of the internet around the world has made it a platform for expressing and debating political ideas.[1] The internet has allowed for...
TikTok: A Contested Global Space
As pandemic related shutdowns around the world have confined many people to their homes, one social media app has exploded in popularity. TikTok, which allows u...