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Book Review — The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age By David Sanger

May 22, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Lukas Mejia, May 2020.

“In The Perfect Weapon, David Sanger presupposes that the onset of modern cyber technology is changing how state-to-state conflict is approached today. In a world where we progressively see a reduction of human input on devices through the increased digitization and connectivity of things…new avenues of exploitation continuously emerge for cyber threat actors. Just over a decade ago cyber technology did not make an appearance on the list of threats within the annual US Worldwide Threat Assessment. Now, it assumes the highest and most pressing position (Coats, 5).”

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Sylvia Maier

May 21, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Sylvia Maier, to discuss her CGA journey and experience. Dr. Maier directs the M.S. in Global Affairs Concentration in Global Gender Studies, the Global Field Intensive to the United Arab Emirates, and serves as faculty adviser to the MSGA Gender Working Group. Sylvia’s principal fields of interest and expertise are women’s rights in the Middle East, South Central Asia, and the Gulf States, with a particular focus on the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan, where she has taught and conducted extensive field research. Sylvia’s new research project, Making Cities Work for Women, is a comparative study of feminist urbanism in global cities—Berlin, Dubai, Vienna, New York—and explores in what ways feminist activists are influencing cities’ urban planning and design processes to reflect the needs, preferences, and lived realities of urban women. Complementing her academic work, Sylvia is the co-founder and deputy editor-in-chief of Women Across Frontiers, a digital women’s rights magazine, and serves as Director of Education Programs as well as on the board of The Peace Project, Inc.

COVID-19: Europe in the midst of Global Narrative Competition

May 20, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Authors: Lukas Mejia and Marine Ragnet, May 2020.

Lukas and Marine’s Spring 2020 Capstone project examines Chinese avenues of influence across the Political, Military, Economic, Societal, Informational, and Infrastructural spectrums in a case study of France. Their aim has been to gather and assemble a taxonomy of Chinese influence operations under the context of changing Great-Power relations. This piece is an edited excerpt on Chinese Informational power in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Thomas Hill

May 20, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Thomas Hill, to discuss his CGA journey and experience. Dr. Hill is a clinical associate professor at the CGA, where he is director of the Peace Research and Education Program. He oversees the peacebuilding concentration within the Master of Science in Global Affairs (MSGA) program. He is a peacebuilding practitioner and researcher with more than 15 years of experience focusing on Iraq. Dr. Hill has developed and has taught a variety of other graduate-level courses, including: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding; the Workshop in Applied Peacebuilding; Conflict Assessment; the Joint Research Seminar in Peacebuilding and the Advanced Joint Research Seminar in Peacebuilding, a two-course sequence that has been conducted in partnership with the University of Duhok in Iraq and the Escuela Superior de Administracion Publica in Colombia. He is a member of the Institute for Economics and Peace. A former journalist, his research interests include: the role of universities as actors and sites for peacebuilding; the importance of community-centered approaches to civil society-led peacebuilding; and the use of conflict analysis and assessment as tools for integrating development and peacebuilding.

Water, Women and El Salvador: The Struggle and How to Help

May 4, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Jessica Lobo, May 2020.

“Salvadorans have created a General Water Law that would include a legal provision of the Human Right to Water in their constitution. This law explicitly acknowledges the gendered aspect of water and calls for open participation (Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador). Nonetheless, there is still a long way to go for women, water, and water management in El Salvador. The law has yet to be ratified by the Salvadoran government, and therefore, issues between women and water persist despite an awareness of the issue (Gies).”

Constructing Space: A Study of Power Arrangements in Space Developments

April 20, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: DeLaine Mayer, April 2020.

“Space exploration and associated research initiatives do have important positive effects societally and culturally, including the development of multi-modal technologies, job creation, and nationalized or globalized realizations of human progress. However, economies of space exploration and resource utilization will replicate traditional power structures seen in historic environmental geopolitical arrangements unless those implicit in constructing New Space develop new arrangements.”

Public vs. Private: An Analysis of Women’s Workforce Participation In the United Arab Emirates

April 12, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Nicole Smith, April 2020.

“The UAE government has made continued efforts to further strengthen and expand upon the opportunities afforded to women within the country’s public sector. Yet, for the government to achieve its National Agenda 2021, which aims to transition the country from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy, a focus on the private sector and women’s participation within it is critical.”

A “Global Zero” Program: Can it Counter the Emerging Threat of Nuclear Terrorism?

April 1, 2020 by bb53 2 Comments

Author: Syeda Samrah Alam, April 2020.

“Seeking a complete elimination of nuclear weapons to address the threat of nuclear terrorism might not be possible, let alone the best option. This is because there are enormous challenges and difficulties associated with proposing and implementing the program. These challenges could make it almost impossible for Global Zero to combat nuclear terrorism.”

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Waheguru Pal S. Sidhu

March 31, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Waheguru Pal Singh (W.P.S.) Sidhu, to discuss his CGA journey and experience. Dr. Sidhu is an associate professor at the CGA and the Director of the United Nations specialization. Concurrently, he is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a guest faculty at the NATO Defense College. Dr. Sidhu has more than 25 years of experience in traditional and non-traditional security issues, specifically in arms control and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – particularly nuclear weapons – and the role of emerging powers, especially India, in the evolving global order. His previous academic and professional positions include vice president of programs at the EastWest Institute, and director of the innovative New Issues in Security Course at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Dr. Sidhu has also served as a consultant to the UN and its affiliate agencies, and to other intergovernmental agencies. In addition to his pedagogic experience, he regularly organizes and conducts track-two projects with institutions in the US, Europe, China, India, and Pakistan to facilitate a dialogue among young scholars on international peace and security issues. He is the author of multiple books, chapters, and articles dealing with defense and security issues. His latest publication is Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order.

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