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The Internet of Things is continuing to grow and expand, with some aspects of smart technology even entering the human body through pacemakers and other […] More

Connected medical devices account for some of the most insecure points within a hospital’s infrastructure. They present an issue not only for the continuity and […] More

Tsai Ing-wen’s inaugural address and Beijing’s reaction to it have done nothing more than confirm the fact that has been evident for the past few […] More

The cybersecurity startup market has been hot. On fire is probably more accurate. The graph above shows how investment has been ramping up over the […] More

A sigh of relief could be heard amongst Europeanists, when independent Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen was declared the winner of the Austrian […] More

Around 750,000 mail-in votes decided the fate of Austria’s presidential election this week, tipping the election in favor of a more centrist candidate. Yet the […] More

Independent Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria’s presidential election by the slimmest of margins, preventing Freedom Party (FPÖ) candidate Norbert Hofer […] More

Three interlinked conflict dynamics are discernible from last week’s developments on the ground: 1) increased lawlessness and militia rivalry in Tripoli and the western region; […] More

World leaders met in Qatar over the weekend for the 16th annual Doha Forum on security. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended, as well as […] More

Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy has taken on a new face. In Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere, Saudi military intervention has signaled a drastic shift from […] More

As dynamics in the Middle East continue to shift, Saudi Arabia has taken on a more aggressive foreign policy approach. According to Perry Cammack, Middle […] More

Arguably any nation’s foreign policy begins with an understanding of its security concerns.  To understand Saudi Arabia’s current foreign policy, often confusing to many given […] More

Last week, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. announced they will hold their first-ever joint anti-missile exercise next month, signaling an effort by Korea and […] More

A May 15 test of India’s anti-ballistic missile system fanned the flames of a nuclear standoff 45 years in the making. Pakistan voiced “serious concern” […] More

The adversarial history between India and Pakistan is compounded by each nation’s firm stance on the possession of nuclear weapons. As each country moves to […] More

South Asia is the region of the world at highest risk of suffering a nuclear crisis due to an explosive mixture of unresolved territorial disputes, […] More

The Presidency of Tsai Ing-wen, which began on 20 May, promises even more “interesting” developments in relations across the Taiwan Strait. China’s communist government has […] More

The United States has fully lifted its embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam in what analysts say should be seen as a more […] More