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Understanding Cybersecurity - Part 1 | Redefining Cybersecurity

January 21, 2015 Richard M. Harrison

Cybersecurity is an often abused and much misused term that was once intended to describe and now serves better to confuse. While originally intended to cover security related issues associated with “cyberspace,” a phrase coined by author William Gibson in the short story “Burning Chrome,” it has become the byword for a staggeringly diverse array of topics. While this is frustrating, the term is popular as shorthand, so we offer this paper to identify and explain four clusters of related topics under the larger umbrella of “cybersecurity.” Each is a distinct issue area with unique technical and policy challenges, while retaining some association to the others...

Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1950

January 20, 2015

Fighter planes for Argentina;

Banning the Islamic State

The State Of The Union Is Great For Iran

January 20, 2015 Ilan I. Berman U.S. News & World Report

The state of the union is great if you happen to be Iran.

On Tuesday, during the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama discussed his view of the continuing controversy over Iran's nuclear program. "Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran," he said, "where, for the first time in a decade, we've halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material."

Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1949

January 13, 2015

Kudrin: Russia on the cusp of "

full-fledged"

economic crisis;

Kyiv moves West, riling Moscow

A Challenge To Modernity

January 12, 2015 Lawrence J. Haas U.S. News & World Report

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist," German pastor Martin Niemoller famously observed about his nation's intellectuals during the Nazi rise to power. "Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me."