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5G: From Technology to Geopolitics

By: Leanardo Antonio Salud & Hongjiao Liu This white paper on 5G is a perfect exemplar of the Global TechnoPolitics Forum's mission of probing at the intersection of technology and geopolitics.  5G technology offers tremendous…

India-China Engagement

Significance of Economic Instruments in Bilateral Relations By: Pooran Chandra Pandey First Published at the Center for Economic Diplomacy As a notable phenomenon of 21st-century international geopolitics, sovereign states tend to seek out to forge…

National Security Memorandum

By Daniel Simonds - GTPF On July 28th, 2021, the White House Published the National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems. This memorandum is important because it demonstrates that the current…

Latest in Cybersecurity

By: Daniel Simonds - GTPF Following the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack on May 27, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a Security Directive that issued cybersecurity requirements for critical…

Digital Corridors

By: Dariush Onsori Central Asia, often regarded as a backwater still languishing in its Soviet and Russian-dominated past, it is now an arena of geopolitical competition, especially between China and India, whose approaches and wherewithal…

CYBER PEARL HARBOR

The looming threat of cyber-attacks on Industrial Control Systems By: Daniel Simonds "Cyber Pearl Harbor" is dramatic language because, after all, each time the United States or another country is attacked, that alerts them to…

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Remembering Donald H. Rumsfeld

By: Gregory Treverton Whatever one's view of the second Iraq war, Donald Rumsfeld deserves to go down in history as a dedicated and effective public servant.  Sometimes, perhaps, he was a little too effective.  If…

GHANA SIG

Pari Esfandiari Speaking at the GHANA School for Internet Governance on . The event was brought about by the E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) the organisers of the 2021 Ghana School on…

Colonial Pipeline attack: a turning point for cyber…

By Jennifer Korn Will the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline change the international norms currently in place regarding nation-states and their historical hesitancy to engage in crippling infrastructure attacks? In this paper, we will explore…