A Weaponized Cyber Commons: Coding Anarchy or Peace Into The Matrix?
Many cyber experts say the world is woefully ill-prepared for a sophisticated cyber-attack and that each passing day brings it one step closer to...
Read the new Journal of Rising Powers
Welcome to the second issue of the inaugural year of the Journal of Rising Powers. In our first issue, we focused a great diversity...
Recipe for a Coup: Pulling a Reverse Machiavelli
Ingredients: A PINCH OF CORRUPTION A TRACE OF TREASON A DOUBLE-CROSS OF YOUR ALLIES A BROADSIDE OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY A DISRESPECTING OF...
Politicized Intelligence / Wounded Democracy
The current political climate in Washington DC towards the American Intelligence Community (AIC) is perhaps at an all-time low. Not only is there a...
The Death of Civil Discourse
I still remember quite vividly my early days in college leading up to the 1992 presidential campaign between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton....
The Diplomatique Internationale of Seinfeld
The American situational comedy, Seinfeld, which basically dominated television in the 1990s and still enjoys a healthy residual life in reruns all around the...
The Vagina Diatribes, Part II: Radical Islamism and Enlightened Demeaning Sexism
Enlightened Demeaning Sexism (EDS) is an unfortunate amalgamation of the two forms of sexism that come from Ambivalent Sexism Theory – hostile sexism and...
Putin-Mongering: Poking the Bear for a new Cold War
W hat this work provides is a foundation for all aspiring iconoclasts in the field of Russian Studies. For a full generation and...
Journal of Rising Powers – A Global South Policy Initiative
“There will be no bloc of ‘emerging economies’ rising up to challenge the Western order. But what comes next may be more chaotic and...
The Vagina Diatribes, Part I: Why Violent Gender Extremism Persists
“The Quran liberated women from subhuman status, gave us rights to choose whom to marry, to work, to be in leadership positions, and to...