Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Cybersecurity – Microsoft takes a stake in Rubrik to combat ransomware (ZDNet)

Liam Tung Microsoft has invested an undisclosed amount in cloud data management firm Rubrik as part of plan to jointly develop Zero Trust products built...
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TechInnovation – Mozilla, MacArthur and Ford foundations unite to oppose Facebook ban on NYU disinformation research (ZDNet)

Jonathan Greig Multiple high-profile foundations and philanthropic organizations came together to criticize Facebook for shutting down the accounts of New York University (NYU) researchers investigating advertising disinformation on...
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Ethiopia – Ethnic Tigrayans Forcibly Disappeared (HRW)

Ethiopian authorities since late June 2021 have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, and committed other abuses against ethnic Tigrayans in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The authorities...
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Afghanistan – The Fragility of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan (HRW)

Heather Barr “But can we trust the Taliban on women’s rights?” has been a favorite question of journalists in recent years. The answer used to...
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Afghanistan/ USA – The Legacy of the U.S. War in Afghanistan in Nine Graphics (CFR)

Lindsay Maizland Since the U.S. invasion in 2001, Washington and its partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have spent hundreds of billions of dollars...
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USA/China – Four years ago today we had a China policy (AEI)

Derek Scissors On August 18, 2017, early in Donald Trump’s presidency, the US launched a Section 301 investigation of Chinese policies concerning intellectual property and technology....
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USA – President Biden’s overreach on SNAP (AEI)

Angela Rachidi This week, President Biden’s administration increased the benefit levels for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or “food stamps,” by more than 20...
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Afghanistan/USA – Why the Afghan army folded (AEI)

Kori Schake The United States has spent $83 billion training, equipping, and even paying Afghanistan’s security forces since 2001, a mammoth amount. As the events...
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QUAD/Indo Pacific – The Quad in the Indo-Pacific: Purpose, Policies and Perspectives (RUSI)

Veerle Nouwens In this episode, Veerle and Dr Tanvi Madan, Director and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, discuss what brings the members...
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Afghanistan – Why Did the Afghan Army Evaporate? (RUSI)

Tim Willasey-Wilsey President Joe Biden’s claim that the Afghan army ‘did not have the resolve’ to fight for its own country would seem to be true...
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Afghanistan – The Next Act in the Afghan Tragedy (RUSI)

Malcolm Chalmers This is a desperate time for the people of Afghanistan, as they await their fate under Taliban rule. While too much international aid has...
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South Africa – Violence adds to uncertainty for South Africa’s mining (Chatham House)

Christopher Vandome, Sheila Khama Mining unquestionably remains one of South Africa’s most important economic sectors, contributing 8-10 per cent of national GDP and, on average, each...
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OPEC – OPEC faces longer-term challenges (Chatham House)

Neil Quilliam It was little surprise that Saudi Arabia and the UAE eventually reached a compromise on OPEC production and baselines, despite the high drama at...
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Afghanistan – Joint Statement on the Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan (US Department of State)

This statement has been co-signed by Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, European Union, Honduras, Guatemala, North Macedonia,...
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Afghanistan – Taliban must transform from an insurgency to govern (Chatham House)

Hameed Hakimi The scenes of tens of thousands of families displaced by the battles across the country who fled to the few remaining public parks...
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Pakistan/Afghanistan/USA – The Real Failure Is Pakistan (Project-Syndicate)

BILL EMMOTT The blame for the return of the Taliban to power lies largely with Pakistan and America’s inability to bring the country onside. Even...
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