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America’s Misuse of Its Financial Infrastructure – with Abraham Newman

April 15, 2019 The National Interest with Abraham Newman

THREE DECADES ago, a German history professor listed 210 proposed explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire. The remarkable array included such fanciful causes ...

(and Abraham Newman)

Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

April 5, 2019 (and Abraham Newman) Financial Times

Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed. Access the full article here.

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How Political Science Can Be Most Useful – with Jack Knight

March 10, 2019 The Chronicle of Higher Education with Jack Knight

Agatha Christie’s murder mystery The Mousetrap is the longest running play in history. Its first run began in 1952, and it hasn’t stopped since. Another ...

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Defending Democratic Mechanisms and Institutions against Disinformation Attacks – with Bruce Schneier

January 28, 2019 DefusingDis.info with Bruce Schneier

To better understand influence attacks, we proposed an approach that models democracy itself as an information system and explains how democracies are vulnerable to certain ...

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Is a No Deal” Brexit Still Avoidable? Why the Irish Border Remains a Stumbling Block for Negotiations

November 20, 2018 Foreign Affairs (online)

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman’s comic history of England, 1066 and All That, talks about nineteenth-century British Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone’s efforts ...

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The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia with Bruce Schneier

November 19, 2018 Vice with Bruce Schneier

On November 4, 2016, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” a front for Russia’s military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to ...

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Information Attacks on Democracies – with Bruce Schneier

November 15, 2018 Lawfare with Bruce Schneier

Democracy is an information system. That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the ...

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Three Moral Economies of Data – with Nils Gilman

November 7, 2018 The American Interest (online) with Nils Gilman

In October 24, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, gave an epochal speech to a conference of European data officials. Many outside the technology industry ...

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Hypocrisy is a Useful Tool in Foreign Affairs. Trump is Too Crude to Play the Game with Martha Finnemore

November 5, 2018 Washington Post with Martha Finnemore

Hypocrisy has a bad connotation, but it offers a useful middle course in the world of geopolitics; it once lubricated the engine of U.S. power. ...

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The Wrong Way to Punish Iran with Abraham Newman

November 1, 2018 The New York Times with Abraham Newman

During the war on terror, the United States quietly turned the world financial system into a hidden empire. The American government used the power of ...

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America’s Misuse of Its Financial Infrastructure – with Abraham Newman

Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

How Political Science Can Be Most Useful – with Jack Knight

Defending Democratic Mechanisms and Institutions against Disinformation Attacks – with Bruce Schneier

Is a No Deal” Brexit Still Avoidable? Why the Irish Border Remains a Stumbling Block for Negotiations

The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia with Bruce Schneier

Information Attacks on Democracies – with Bruce Schneier

Three Moral Economies of Data – with Nils Gilman

Hypocrisy is a Useful Tool in Foreign Affairs. Trump is Too Crude to Play the Game with Martha Finnemore

The Wrong Way to Punish Iran with Abraham Newman

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