North Korea’s “Checkerboard” Threat: Obstacles & Opportunities for the US-ROK Alliance

…assistance of 38 North’s Research Associates Natalia Slavney and Iliana Ragnone. Although North Korea’s rollout of new ballistic missiles during the parades dominated international headlines for weeks, the numerous improvements…
Semiconductor Nationalism in the Shadow of Taiwan’s Election

…Google, Nvidia, and Intel. More than half of the company’s institutional stockholders are American, but Taiwan retains the largest stake. Unlike TSMC’s two foundries under construction in Arizona, initially, at…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE Compete to be Hubs for Regional Business

…an interview, Joseph A. Kéchichian, a senior fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, explained that while Emiratis are not very happy about the…
The Terrifying Geography of Nuclear and Radiological Insecurity in South Asia
…the requisite means, motive, and opportunities for an incident of terror via weapons of mass destruction or disruption converge in South Asia. https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?q=select+col3+from+1KeITeRFgB53VKAMjkNMhaijT9kxv83yt5zuIUYkW&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=24.81769138190341&lng=67.23092314414976&t=1&z=11&l=col3&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=TWO_COL_LAT_LNG The upcoming Summit on Countering WMD Terrorism, to be…
A Choke-point Strategy on the Dark Web

By Levi Maxey: Did you know that when you “google” something you only access a fraction of the World Wide Web? Indeed, commercial search engines only scratch the surface, about…
Chronology Sources
…https://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&t=PDF&gc=true&sc=false&f=ST%2017175%202008%20INIT&r=http%3A%2F%2Fregister.consilium.europa.eu%2Fpd%2Fen%2F+08%2Fst17%2Fst17175.en08.pdf February 10, 2009 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1 Nov. 27, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf February 10, 2009 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1 March 7, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf May 14, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf November 27,2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf April 22, 2010 https://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2011.revised.pdf November 3,…
Recent Challenges to US Security Interests in Northeast Asia
…issue on both sides could severely damage the relationship between the two countries, especially in light of the Google conundrum, disagreements over the environment and other high profile cases of…
Youth E-Consult: Engaging the Minds of tomorrow with the global governance challenges of today
…different climate regime would only be attainable through cultural change, and by educating and empowering of the youth. The Google project ‘Impactful Friday’ in schools, which gave opportunity to children…