July 18, 2016
As events were unfolding in Turkey with an attempted coup on Friday, July 15, to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Jackson School Director Reşat Kasaba, who is originally from Turkey
July 15, 2016
Reşat Kasaba, director of the Jackson School and the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies, recently spent a week in Taiwan at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
July 5, 2016
Veronica Inveen, a transfer student from Tacoma Community College, was featured in UW’s Spring 2016 Transfer Newsletter where she talks about her decision to major in International Studies and minor in Southeast
June 28, 2016
North Korea has focused on an asymmetric military strategy because of its lack of conventional power and resources. However, its traditional asymmetric weapons and strength have been monitored by Western countries, therefore, heavily sanctioned. For North Korea, developing and exerting its cyber capabilities is the best way to avoid sanctions while achieving its strategic goals. Cyber tactics are effective because of the characteristics of cyberspace or cyber warfare–the low cost of entry, anonymity, and plausible deniability.
June 27, 2016
Thursday’s [June 23, 2016] vote puts Britain in a weak leadership position at a time when collaboration and innovation are needed to keep up the neighborhood writes Professor of Scandinavian
June 24, 2016
Daniel Chirot, the Jackson School’s Herbert J. Ellison professor of Russian and Eurasian studies at the University of Washington, was interviewed by several media as part of global reactions to
June 21, 2016
The closeness of China and Russia’s cybersecurity relationship is not dependent on their ties with each other, but is defined in relation to the US. Instead of augmenting the trust or preventing cyber-espionage between the two countries, Sino-Russian cybersecurity cooperation is a strategic move to challenge US dominance over the Internet.
June 20, 2016
Eight Jackson School undergraduates spent the morning of June 7 in a different kind of classroom: presenting their research on “Extremist Use of Information and Communications Technology – Transcending the
June 14, 2016
In the video below, Teyloure Ring explains the Russian Federation’s attitude towards encryption and encrypted products. Ms. Ring argues that while there was a lot of concern that countries such
June 13, 2016
“It is our deep conviction at the Jackson School, that to understand the world, you have to start from a specific place in that world: you have to understand its