Martians in the Gobi: Mongolia’s New Approach to Space Policy
Introduction In March, Mongolia was welcomed into the international space community by successfully sending two nanosatellites, Ondosat-Owl-1 and Ondosat-Owl-2,...
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‘By not speaking out, you become complicit:’ Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter on energy and corruption in South Africa
André Marinus de Ruyter is a South African businessman who in December 2019 was appointed CEO of Eskom, South Africa’s largest state-owned electricity com...
Failures, Successes, and Challenges in Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing: Lessons from the Soviet Union, China, and Taiwan
Semiconductors are the technological backbone of modern electronics and, by extension, the global economy. The policies governing their production and distribut...
Analyzing Taiwan’s Readiness and Response to PRC Offensive Cyber Operations
Offensive cyber operations (OCOs) are a critical component of the PLA’s zero-sum “intelligentized” warfare strategy against Taiwan, which the Russian war in Ukr...
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...
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...
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...