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Under Trump, The Fight Against Cybersecurity Has Waned
June 27, 2019
Georgia Tech School of Public Policy alum Ishan Mehta wrote "Under Trump, The Fight Against Cybersecurity Has Waned" in Wired, June 20.
Excerpt:
According to recent polling, Americans view malicious cyber activity as their top security concern—ahead of the economy, nuclear threats, and ISIL. This fear is well-justified. Within the last couple of years, there have been cyberattacks in the United States against the electoral system, the financial industry, the power grid, and hospitals.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Wired
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Who would win a US-Iran war? A strong and peaceful China
June 22, 2019
John Garver, a professor emeritus in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote “Who would win a US-Iran war? A strong and peaceful China,” South China Morning Post, June 22.
The leaders of both China and Iran have long been focused on restoring a national greatness that was lost when Western powers remade the world during the European, Japanese and American expansionism of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Find the article on the South China Morning Post website.
Published in: South China Morning Post
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Horses in the Back
June 21, 2019
Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication Assistant Professor Joycelyn Wilson wrote "Horses in the Back" in The Bitter Southerner, June 17.
Excerpt:
Let’s say it again for those in the back: Trap music is the most significant cultural innovation to arise from Southern hip hop — and one of the most critical discoveries in American black music over the last quarter century. The latest example comes from Montero Lamar Hill, the 20-year old Atlanta rapper named Lil Nas X who, in just six months, has disturbed the groove of the country music industry with his viral hit “Old Town Road.”
Lil Nas X has turned the discussion of cultural appropriation on its head … again.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: The Bitter Southerner
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How States Foster Violent Extremism and What the United States Should Do About It
June 16, 2019
Lawrence Rubin, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has co-authored with Nathaniel Allen and Michael Marcusa an article titled, "How States Foster Violent Extremism and What the United States Should Do About It" in Lawfare, June 16.
Authoritarian rule through patronage and repression can create political opportunities for extremists by generating popular resentment and causing local elites to abandon their state patrons, leaving a power vacuum. This disruption and disorder may take years to come to the surface. When Qaddafi seized power in 1969, Libya’s Cyrenaica region, a bastion of resistance against colonial rule and support for the former regime, became politically and economically marginalized.
Published in: Lawfare
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Want to Fix the Tech Industry? Start With the Humanities.
June 13, 2019
Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology Chair Eric Schatzberg wrote “Want to Fix the Tech Industry? Start With the Humanities" in Washington Post, June 10.
Excerpt:
Steve Jobs once proclaimed that “technology alone is not enough.” Creating a better world, he repeatedly stressed, requires focus on people as well as technology, on the humanities as well as the sciences.
Jobs was right. But why? Because technology is about people as much as things. As a human endeavor, technology belongs as much to the humanities and social sciences as to the natural sciences. Technologies arise only when people consciously transform the material world for human ends. Without the humans who create, maintain and use technologies, they would not exist.
The School of History and Sociology is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Washington Post
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Scholars Lead Push on Developing Independent, Transnational Centers to 'Vet' Cyber-Attack Attributions
June 10, 2019
Georgia Tech Public Policy Professor Milton Mueller was quoted in “Scholars Lead Push on Developing Independent, Transnational Centers to 'Vet' Cyber-Attack Attributions" in Inside Cybersecurity, May 30.
Excerpt:
"A notable group of academics is developing what can be described as a peer-review process for attributions of cyber attacks, amid greater recognition of the effectiveness of private-sector efforts in the field and a closer examination of the relationship between attribution and deterrence."
The School of Public Policy is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Inside Cybersecurity
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China's Push for Megacities: Is Bigger Better?
June 7, 2019
Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Professor Fei-Ling Wang wrote “China's Push for Megacities: Is Bigger Better?" in the China-Britain Business Council's publication, FOCUS Magazine, June 4.
Excerpt:
"In 1978, before Deng Xiaoping's Opening Up and Reform policy, only 18 percent of China's population lived in urban areas. Over the next 40 years, as the economy boomed, that number swelled to well over three quarters of a billion people, and, by 2030, a billion people are expected to live in China's cities."
The Nunn School is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: FOCUS
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Rare earths: Beijing threatens a new front in the trade war.
June 3, 2019
Yujia He, a Sam Nunn School of International Affairs doctoral alumna, was quoted in “Rare earths: Beijing threatens a new front in the trade war.” Financial Times, June 3.
“It would be difficult to make it hit just the US,” Yujia He, of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Institute for Emerging Market Studies, says of any eventual Chinese restrictions on exports.
Find the article on the Financial Times website.
Published in: Financial Times
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A Global Conversation with General Philip Breedlove
May 29, 2019
General Phil Breedlove, former 17th Supreme Commander Europe of NATO and now Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow in the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies, was interviewed in "A Global Conversation with General Philip Breedlove." The Cipher Brief, May 29.
I don’t think any of this is settled yet. What’s happening here is that you see a Russian information campaign aimed at influencing the United States. Russia is trying to show that it is embracing Turkey, and Turkey is embracing back, and that they’re going to be future partners in everything. Remember that these are two countries that almost went to war over the shooting down of an airliner not too long ago. What we see at this point may or may not play out, that they buy the S-400 from Russia.
Read the article on The Cipher Brief website.
Published in: The Cipher Brief
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Tech transfer to China 'needs scrutiny
May 23, 2019
Margaret Kosal, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in "Tech transfer to China 'needs scrutiny," Research Europe, May 23.
Margaret Kosal, who studies emerging technologies and security at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, agreed that US government measures are insufficient. But making researchers, companies or institutions responsible for spotting which technologies have nefarious uses would probably be ineffective and stifle innovation, according to Kosal.
Find the article on Research Europe website.
Published in: Research Europe
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10 Years in and the Economic Recovery Keeps Chugging Along
May 13, 2019
Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Professor of Practice Dennis Lockhart wrote “10 Years in and the Economic Recovery Keeps Chugging Along" in The Hill, May 13.
Excerpt:
"This summer the U.S. economy will achieve a noteworthy milestone: 10 years of growth. According to official GDP reports, our economy has been expanding since the summer of 2009.
The pace of growth was quite modest for several years after 2009 but has recently picked up. Barring a sharp downturn, the expansion will very likely set the record for the longest in U.S. history."
The Nunn School is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: The Hill
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Breaking Up Facebook Isn't Enough
May 9, 2019
Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article entitled “Breaking Up Facebook Isn't Enough” for The Atlantic. Bogost was interviewed on the same topic for KCRW.
Here's an excerpt:
In an explosive opinion piece published today in The New York Times, Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg’s former Harvard roommate, called for the government to break up the social-media company. “I haven’t worked at the company in a decade,” Hughes wrote, “But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.”
That’s a nice gesture, and Hughes, now a co-founder of a basic-income collective, puts forth some worthy ideas that tech entrepreneurs, even lapsed ones, rarely embrace. But the gesture is still more rhetorical than actionable, and it doesn’t go nearly far enough into specifics about how to dismantle a company he calls a dangerous monopoly.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: The Atlantic
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Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.
May 6, 2019
Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communications (LMC) Chair Richard Utz was quoted in “Medieval Scholars Joust with White Nationalists. And Each Other", a front page article in The New York Times, May 3.
Excerpt:
"Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, performances and after-hours mead drinking.
But in recent years, the gathering affectionately known as “K’zoo” — and the field of medieval studies itself — has been shadowed by conflicts right out of the 21st century."
LMC is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: The New York Times
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I was fortunate enough to have Richard Lugar as a trusted friend
May 1, 2019
Sam Nunn, a Sam Nunn School of International Affairs distinguished professor and namesake, has written a co-op entitled, "I was fortunate enough to have Richard Lugar as a trusted friend" in The Washington Post.
"Dick began his Senate career representing Indiana in 1977 at a time when our politics and our nation could have come apart. Over the previous four years, we’d had three presidents and four vice presidents, a presidential resignation, the installation of two vice presidents via the never-before-used 25th Amendment, and a close 1976 presidential election. Despite this turmoil, Dick set a new example of civility, working across party lines and helping to heal our divisions, while underscoring the essential role of Congress in advancing our nation’s interests around the world."
Find the full article on The Washington Post.
Published in: The Washington Post
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Censorship in a China Studies Journal
April 22, 2019
Georgia Tech School of Modern Languages Associate Professor Jin Liu was quoted in the article "Censorship in a China Studies Journal," in Inside Higher Ed, April 22.
Excerpt:
“I admire the two special editors, their courage for speaking out and letting the broader academic community know about this,” said Liu, an associate professor of Chinese language and culture at Georgia Tech. “I think scholars will be more careful to submit their articles to this journal later on.”
The School of Modern Languages is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Inside Higher Ed
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The Navy is starting to put up real money for robot submarines
April 19, 2019
Margaret Kosal, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in the LA Times article, "The Navy is starting to put up real money for robot submarines."
Analysts say undersea drones could be used for missions once conducted by crewed submarines, while the lack of a crew gives the drones an advantage in conducting “persistent surveillance for activities that might take place in an area where there is concern about underwater mines,” said Margaret E. Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Published in: LA Times
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Rise of the 'Splinternet': Experts Warn the World Wide Web Will Break Up and Fragment as Governments Set their own Rules to Filter and Restrict Content
April 12, 2019
Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Professor Milton Mueller was quoted in the article "Rise of the 'splinternet': Experts warn the world wide web will break up and fragment as governments set their own rules to filter and restrict content," in Britain's Daily Mail April 12.
Excerpt:
Dreams for a connected global internet are increasingly threatened by regulations being brought in by governments around the world, experts have warned. Plans to restrict content are fragmenting the world wide web, a system created with the promise of connecting people by offering universal access to information...
More nation-states are trying to territorialize information flows and assert control of those services,' said Milton Mueller, a Georgia Institute of Technology professor and co-founder of the Internet Governance Project of analysts. The fragmentation could have profound consequences both in terms of economics and human rights, according to Mueller.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Daily Mail
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The Threat of Nuclear War Is Still With Us
April 10, 2019
Sam Nunn, a Sam Nunn School of International Affairs distinguished professor and namesake, has co-authored "The Threat of Nuclear War Is Still With Us" with George P. Shultz and William J. Perry in The Wall Street Journal.
"The U.S., its allies and Russia are caught in a dangerous policy paralysis that could lead—most likely by mistake or miscalculation—to a military confrontation and potentially the use of nuclear weapons for the first time in nearly 74 years."
Read the full article on The Wall Street Journal.
Published in: The Wall Street Journal
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How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit
April 9, 2019
Renee Shelby, a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology, was recently quoted in an article entitled “How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit” for Vice.
Here's an excerpt:
In the US, what is colloquially known as a “rape kit” hasn’t changed much since it was developed. Officially named for the Chicago police sergeant who helped create it, the “Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit” was unveiled in the late 1970s as a way to collect evidence from a person’s body using swabs, combs, slides, and fingernail clippings.
The School of History and Sociology is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Vice
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21 States to DeVos: Stop Blocking our Efforts to Crack Down on Student-loan Companies
April 9, 2019
Peter Swire, the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor of Law and Ethics in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an article entitled “21 States to DeVos: Stop Blocking our Efforts to Crack Down on Student-loan Companies” for MarketWatch.
Here's an excerpt:
The top law enforcement officials in 21 states are accusing Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education of blocking them from accessing information they say they need to hold student-loan companies accountable for allegedly harming borrowers.
Attorneys general in New Jersey, Washington, Colorado and 18 other states, wrote to DeVos this week, asking her reverse the limitations the Department has placed on the disclosure of student-loan information to state law enforcement agencies. In the past, state AGs probing student-loan companies have been able to access records related to the federal student-loan program held by those companies — which are contractors of the Department of Education — in the course of probes or litigation.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: MarketWatch
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