Kaya Sol became a Cybersecurity Research Fellow after taking a course with Assistant Teaching Professor Jessica Beyer, a lead faculty member of the Jackson School’s Cybersecurity Initiative. The course was

Over 95% of international data, including financial transactions, military communications, and daily internet traffic, travel through submarine cables laid on the ocean floor (Wall & Morcos, 2021). Although this critical

TikTok’s video-sharing app has become the epicenter of a growing American debate over the boundaries of civil liberties and the imperatives of national security in the digital age. With over

Vietnam is vulnerable to cyber attacks from Chinese hackers due to the dispute over the South China Sea (Trinh, 2025; Borten, 2024). Although Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam all

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Daniel Bessner, the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the Jackson School, recently received a Listener’s Choice award in the category of

U.S. Soft Power After Trump Soft power is a component of every state’s foreign policy. Understood as a force of attraction rather than coercion, it allows states to achieve their

China’s Space Diplomacy Around the World China’s vision for an alternative world order are reflected in high-profile diplomatic initiatives such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the Global Development Initiative,

Geoeconomics of the Deep: Governing Power, Resources, and Biodiversity on the High Seas This capstone explores the governance of the high seas as a global commons—the vast ocean areas beyond

Averting War: Taiwan and US-China Relations In 2021, The Economist dedicated an issue to Taiwan titled “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth.” After China’s 2022 missile launches off Taiwan’s shores and