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My dear friend, Steve Bainbridge, has posted a very thoughtful commentary on the question I raised in the previous post about whether the Outer Space Treaty needs to be revised. Bainbridge writes:
I think that human space exploration in the West increasingly will be privatized. Budget constraints in an era of burgeoning deficits likely mean that massively costly human space exploration …

Forty years ago–on July 20, 1969, the Lunar Excursion Module, The Eagle, touched down on the moon. The following day, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface, uttering one of the most famous phrases in history– ““That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”
As a 10-year old child, I watched this momentous event on our …

As noted in the previous post, the 2009 Summer International Relations Program for High School Students has been taking place over the course of this past week. Starting last night and continuing through today, the students have been engaging in a crisis simuation relating to Somalia. In a few minutes, they will begin the final phase of this simulation– a …

Since 1988, I have been running a week-long program for high school students interested in international relations under the auspices of Georgetown’s School for Continuing Studies. This afternoon about 224 high school students will check into the dorms to begin an intensive exploration of international relations. Here is a list of topics and speakers:
Georgetown University
International Relations Program for High …

My friend Amit Yoran recently gave an interview to Steven Fox of CSO-online in which he explored the relevance of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to cyber security. Amit is one of the world’s leading experts on cyber security. The is currently the Chairman and  CEO of NetWitness and former Cyber Security Czar for the United States. The podcast …

Earlier today, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on “legal issues regarding military commissions and the trial of detainees for violations of the law of war” (archived webcast here).  At that hearing, Department of Defense General Counsel Jeh Johnson supported the notion of “prolonged detention.”  He noted that “as a matter of legal authority”– citing the “laws of …

Earlier today, Vice President Joe Biden engaged in the following dialogue with George Stephanopolous on ABC’s “This Week”:
STEPHANOPOULOS: And meanwhile, Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it pretty clear that he agreed with President Obama to give until the end of the year for this whole process of engagement to work. After that, he’s prepared to take matters into his own …