June 2, 2016
Crisis and Challenges In the turmoil of political and economic transition in the early 1990s, Russia’s space program experienced a power vacuum. As a result, regrouping of the sprawling state
June 1, 2016
The European Union is broadly considered to act as a normative power, seeking to promote its values, both within its member states and beyond its geographical borders. This emphasis on
June 1, 2016
Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim have co-authored a piece about the latest developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logic behind South Korea’s desire to take
May 31, 2016
A group of University of Washington and Jackson School undergraduate and graduate students who also serve as International Policy Institute Fellows recently discussed policy in the “other Washington” in a first-ever workshop
May 31, 2016
SSI Junior Fellow Clint Work and Seonhee Kim publish a critical review on South Korea’s space program on Sino-NK, a scholarly collective of Sinologists and Koreanists.
May 31, 2016
Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen gives an insider’s look into how the rise of commercial space players developing smallsats (a.k.a. small satellites) are playing a big role in monitoring activity
May 31, 2016
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, governments are struggling to strike a balance between privacy and security within their borders, particularly regarding the issues around encryption. Information technology (IT) companies are also joining
May 25, 2016
SSI held a practicum workshop today, focusing on briefing strategies for its SSI Junior Fellows ahead of the Capstone Event to be held on June 8, 2016. Throughout 2015-2016 academic
May 25, 2016
On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the Safe Harbor law in an action that could be argued to be the single most important legislation
May 20, 2016
The Space Security Initiative (SSI) will hold its annual Capstone on June 8, 2016 at the University of Washington (UW) Club. In October 2015, the SSI Director, Saadia Pekkanen, recruited