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The Folly of Sanitized Cyber War

The debate over the applicability or non-applicability of international law to cyber war and the need for a cyber-specific international treaty might be irrelevant. Both camps, pro and con, argue about the need for cyber war to have the Law of Armed Conflict or some new international legal project properly cover the cyber domain. Both camps, however, misread how the structure of the cyber domain precludes strategically ‘piggy-backing’ on conventional norms of war. International...

Matthew Crosston

Persian Gulf Confidential

Late at night on April 17 the Arab media outlets reported that a mysterious meeting of foreign ministers of the Council of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf had succeeded. The outlets stated that the parties involved "...

Maxim Egorov

Southeast Asia's Illegal Timber Market

The worldwide trade in illegal timber and related wood products affects the majority of countries which boast large wooded areas, and brings its merchants over eleven billion dollars in yearly...

Vladimir Platov