30 Mar 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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It seems as if writing up a blog to support an article release is becoming necessary, so I will do my part to support a recent article Ryan Maness and I published at Armed Forces and Society (ungated here). This … Continue reading
16 Mar 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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Guest Post from: Daniel Bertrand Monk, Colgate University and Daniel Levine, University of Alabama With one day remaining before Israel’s Knesset elections, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party appears poised to fall at least four seats short of its principal rival, the Zionist … Continue reading
9 Mar 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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It seems as if a critical mass of the community of IR scholars have settled on the notion that diversity is important, both in substance and in representation. The problem is that this critical mass has very little conception of … Continue reading
25 Feb 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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Fletcher: “I was there to push people beyond what’s expected of them. I believe that’s an absolute necessity.” I sit here listening to the end scene of Whiplash again, for the fifth time today, on a plane. Not going out … Continue reading
22 Jan 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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I am tired, so very tired. This month I took a trip to Japan, would love if the entire goal of the trip was to eat Kobe beef and real sushi, but sadly, no. The goal was go to Akita … Continue reading
27 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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We all survived, the great hacking scare of 2014 is almost over. On November 22, North Korea or its operatives attacked Sony’s networks over the movie The Interview. In what is normally a quite holiday period of writing and copy … Continue reading
24 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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by Brandon Valeriano and Laura Sjoberg It is often said that borders are withering away, that we are in a new era of state sovereignty. Duvall and Wendt wrote the best treatment on this (in my eyes) suggesting that our … Continue reading
18 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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Not even a week has gone by and my blog on the Monkey Cage/Washington Post about the hack of Sony by North Korea is already likely outdated. North Korea’s cyber team dubbing themselves the Guardians of the Peace vowed to … Continue reading
9 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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In the cyber security discourse, critics of cyber revolution hypotheses and the dominant coming “cyberwar” narrative tend to be painted as cyber skeptics. I refuse to accept this terminology. It is a dangerous and dismissive technique that seeks to limit … Continue reading
5 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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“Wait and see”, that was the response of the North Korean government when asked if they were responsible for a massive cyber infiltration of Sony networks likely reaching 100TBs of data and paralyzing Sony’s networks. While we are witnessing new … Continue reading