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Lawrence Rubin Interviewed in Kurdish Newspaper Gulan
February 13, 2020
Lawrence Rubin, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed in the Kurdish newspaper Gulan about the killing of Iranian General Qassem Sulaimani and its implications for the future of Iraq.
You can read the article, which is in Kurdish, at this link.
Published in: Gulan
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Scenes & Motions: Not Me. Us: Six Chances to Connect
February 6, 2020
DramaTech's production of Nina Raine's play "Tribes" was mentioned by Creative Loafing in their rundown of local shows running in February. DramaTech, the oldest continually running theatre in Atlanta, is supported by the School of Literature, Media and Communications.
"Tribes", which is running from February 7-15, tells the story of a deaf boy's journey of learning the values of the deaf community and applying them to his own family's values.
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But then Billy meets Sylvia, a hearing woman born to deaf parents who is now slowly going deaf herself. She hates that she’s losing her hearing and begins teaching Billy sign language. After learning about the values of the deaf community, Billy confronts his own family’s beliefs and values. Finally, it is the deaf family member who demands to be heard.
DramaTech, Georgia Tech’s student-run theatre organization, has been around for 73 years. Tribes is an award-winning script, and many productions feature a deaf actor in the role of Billy. This might well be a student production worth seeking out.
Published in: Creative Loafing
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Who Should Control the Internet's .Org Addresses?
February 5, 2020
Milton Mueller, professor in the School of Public Policy, was referenced in the article "Who Should Control the Internet's .Org Address?" in WIRED on Feb. 4, 2020.
The article covers concerns that the .org address, which has traditionally been the domain of nonprofit groups, could become exorbitantly expensive after the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which controls the domain name, was sold to the private equity firm Ethos Capital. Mueller, an expert in internet governance who worked on the original deal for PIR to manage .org, provided background on potential implications of the deal with Ethos Capital.
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It's not clear what grounds ICANN could use to block the sale. Milton Mueller, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy who worked on the ICANN group that approved the original contract for PIR to manage the .org top-level domain, tells WIRED that PIR’s contract with ICANN never specified that the .org domain had to be managed by a nonprofit. But he says that, as a requirement of its approval of the sale, ICANN could potentially put new provisions into the contract that would make PIR more accountable to the nonprofit community.
Published in: WIRED
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Making Security Cooperation More Effective
January 31, 2020
Eliza Markley, a Sam Nunn School of International Affairs lecturer, wrote "Making Security Cooperation More Effective" in The Cipher Brief.
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Today’s security cooperation requires fast, effective, and secure sharing of information across national borders and agency bureaucracies and increasingly emphasizes the role of networks. Effective security cooperation requires more than just joint strategies, structures, forces and missions. It also demands fast, effective and secure sharing of information across national borders and agency bureaucracies. Given the severity and unpredictability of today’s security threats, one way to improving interagency collaboration and cross-border security provision lies in the building of networks of cooperation among security professionals from around the globe. This is one central purpose of advanced education in security policy, defense affairs, and international relations for military officers and defense officials, which can also be referred to as International Security Policy Education (ISPE).
Find the full article on The Cipher Brief website.
Published in: The Cipher Brief
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Parental Paid Leave Spreads in Georgia After Years of Resistance
January 27, 2020
Lindsey Bullinger, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article "Parental paid leave spreads in Georgia after years of resistance," published Jan. 26, 2019 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The article examined potential progress in the area of paid maternity leave in Georgia, which does not mandate the practice. Bullinger has studied the impact of California's paid family leave law, which could serve as a model for Georgia and other states.
Lindsey Bullinger, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, studied data from California, which enacted the country’s first paid family leave law nearly two decades ago. She said the program has led to an “improvement in overall child health” for infants, including a reduction in asthma rates.
“We know that kids who are healthier at birth and in early infanthood are healthier, they have higher education attainment, they’re more likely to be employed and more likely to pay taxes when they’re adults because they’re employed,” she said.
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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The Unintended Consequences of Military Aid
January 24, 2020
Rana Shabb, a PhD candidate in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote "The Unintended Consequences of Military Aid" in The Cipher Brief.
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In stark contrast, military expenditure in the developed world is generally associated with good things. In the context of Western society, military spending helps foster technical and economic innovation, which in the long run, helps sustain economic growth and continued prosperity. Outside the security realm, investment in military Research and Development (R&D), defense technology spinoff, and military procurement all have positive effects in the domestic economy – supporting increased productivity and economic innovation. What is understudied is whether military aid to developing countries can emulate the positive effects we see in the West.
Find the article in The Cipher Brief website.
Published in: The Cipher Brief
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(Almost) Everything You Know About the Invention of the Vibrator Is Wrong
January 23, 2020
Hallie Lieberman, visiting lecturer in the School of History and Sociology, wrote the piece "(Almost) Everything You Know About the Invention of the Vibrator Is Wrong," for The New York Times on Jan. 23, 2020.
Lieberman's piece explores the problematic and typically incorrect perceptions of the reasons for invention and early uses of the vibrator, which have been referenced many times in pop culture and have become a common misconception.
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Ms. Maines is right about one thing: the electric vibrator was invented by a physician, the British doctor Joseph Mortimer Granville. But when Dr. Granville invented the vibrator in the early 1880s, it was not meant to be used on women or to cure hysteria. In fact, he argued specifically that it shouldn’t be used on hysterical women; rather, Dr. Granville invented the vibrator as a medical device for men, to be used on a variety of body parts, mainly to treat pain, spinal disease and deafness. The only sexual uses he suggested were vibrating men’s perineums to treat impotence. Illustrations in Dr. Granville’s book on the invention of the electric vibrator show him using it only on men.
The true story is that the use of vibrators became widespread only when they were marketed to the general public, both men and women, as domestic and medical appliances in the early 1900s. Ads featuring men and women, babies and older people, promised vibrators could do everything from eliminating wrinkles to curing tuberculosis. When doctors did use vibrators on women, they assiduously avoided touching their clitorises. “The greatest objection to vibration thus applied is that in overly sensitive patients it is liable to cause sexual excitement,” the gynecologist James Craven Wood wrote in 1917. If, however, he continued, “the vibratode is kept well back from the clitoris, there is but little danger of causing such excitement.”
Published in: The New York Times
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WTF: Vibrators Used to Calm Misbehaving Women
January 23, 2020
Research by School of History and Sociology Chair Eric Schatzberg and visiting lecturer Hallie Lieberman was mentioned in "WTF: Vibrators used to calm misbehaving women" in the London Free Press on Jan. 23, 2020.
The piece explores the conception of the history of the vibrator, which some sources, notably Rachel Maines' 1999 book "The Technology of Orgasm," claim was invented to cure "hysteria" in women in the 19th century. However, there may be significant misconceptions driving that story, and Lieberman and Schatzberg's paper "A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of Orgasm" is cited as a rebuttal to Maines' narrative.
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Lieberman and Schatzberg don’t outright call BS, but they come pretty close.
“The 19-year success of Technology of Orgasm points to a fundamental failure of academic quality control. This failure occurred at every stage, starting with the assessment of the work at the Johns Hopkins University Press.”
Published in: London Free Press
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China and Russia’s push to develop hypersonic weapons raises fears of arms race with US
January 21, 2020
Margaret E. Kosal, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in the South China Morning Post article, "China and Russia’s push to develop hypersonic weapons raises fears of arms race with US."
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Despite the accelerating arms race, Margaret Kosal, an associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, said the hypersonic technology would not be a game changer because evidence suggested the technology would not replace nuclear weapons as the most effective strategic deterrence tool.
“Hypersonic missiles will not cause deterrence among superpowers, great powers, or rising powers, [even though the weapons] might affect aspects of the deterrence calculus and might affect choices in command and control,” she said.
Find the article on the South China Morning Post site.
Published in: South China Morning Post
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Coke Trade Secrets Case Highlights U.S.-China Tension, Trade Challenge
January 17, 2020
Sam Nunn School of International Relations Professor Fei-Ling Wang was quoted in the article "Coke ex-employee with China ties faces trade secret theft charge," published Jan. 17, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The case covered by the article, in which a former Coca-Cola engineer has been charged with taking confidential documents from the company, could raise implications and questions about international law governing trade secrets, particularly in commerce between the U.S. and China. Wang offered his thoughts on the subject.
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Yet some longtime observers question if the deal changes much because they doubt the willingness of China’s government to fix the issue.
“Meaningful mechanisms are not going to be accepted” by political leaders in China, predicted Fei-Ling Wang, a Georgia Tech professor of international affairs. “There will be great promises but the promises are likely to be, at best, partially implemented.”
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Coke trade secrets case highlights U.S.-China tension, trade challenge
January 17, 2020
Fei-Ling Wang, a professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in the AJC article titled "Coke trade secrets case highlights U.S.-China tension, trade challenge."
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“Meaningful mechanisms are not going to be accepted” by political leaders in China, predicted Fei-Ling Wang, a Georgia Tech professor of international affairs. “There will be great promises but the promises are likely to be, at best, partially implemented.”
Find the article on the AJC website.
Published in: AJC
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The Death of a General: What’s next for Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East?
January 16, 2020
Lawrence Rubin, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in The Foreign Policy Centre article "The Death of a General: What’s next for Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East?"
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Dr. Lawrence Rubin (Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology) believes that ‘concerning implications for the region, it’s too early to say given the uncertainty in Iraqi politics and the most recent gaffe from US regarding troop withdrawal. Naturally, the most important aspect will be how it plays out in Iraqi politics and second, how the US manages it. Sectarian politics have and will continue to play a role because of which Iraqi groups’ interests are more closely aligned with the US presence in the region.
Find the article on The Foreign Policy Centre website.
Published in: The Foreign Policy Centre
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A U.S. Perspective: An Interview With Admiral James Winnefeld (USN, ret.)
January 14, 2020
Admiral Sandy Winnefeld (USN, ret.), Distinguished Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed for the January/February issue of the Arms Control Association's Arms Control Today magazine. Winnefeld spoke about the importance and future of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, now the only international treaty governing the U.S. and Russia's nuclear arsenals.
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ACT: Why has the U.S. military been a strong proponent of strategic arms control, including New START? What is it about strategic offensive armaments that have led the United States and Russia, through the ups and downs in the political relationship, to continue to pursue limits on these weapons? If we have less visibility into Russia's nuclear capabilities, their force structure, and their modernization plans, which would be the case without New START, what impact could that have on U.S. military planning and spending?
Winnefeld: The U.S. military fully recognizes the benefits of well-constructed arms control treaties, for all the reasons outlined above. Moreover, the predictability provided by these treaties permits more stable defense planning, especially in an era in which defense budgets are highly unstable. Although a future treaty negotiation will be shaped by the nation’s strategic force modernization plans, the reverse is also true. For example, New START limited the number of sea-based ballistic missile launch tubes, which required the United States to decommission some existing launchers in its submarines. This limit clearly guided plans for the next generation of U.S. submarines. An absence of boundaries and transparency over Russia’s program development could lead to program disruption when a response is required by an unanticipated change in the trajectory of Russian strategic systems development.
Published in: Arms Control Association
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NATO and emerging technologies
January 13, 2020
Margaret E. Kosal, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote "NATO and emerging technologies" in the European Leadership Network.
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Like other technological breakthroughs of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, such as gene-editing, the ubiquitous extent of ‘cyber’-everything through information and communications technologies, nanotechnology, and the cognitive sciences, much of the concern regarding the potential offensive applications of artificial intelligence is highly speculative and based on worst-case scenarios. The technical and operational veracity of scenarios varies highly from the robust pragmatic realpolitik to dystopian fantasy. Particularly of the industrialised global north, worst-case scenarios garner easy media attention and can inadvertently drive policy decisions. Choices can be made today, and policy can be implemented in the near future, that are likely to shift the balance in favour of maximizing the benefits and minimizing the negative effects on global security.
Read the article on the European Leadership Network.
Published in: European Leadership Network
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NATO and Emerging Technologies
January 13, 2020
Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote the commentary piece "NATO and emerging technologies" for the European Leadership Network.
Kosal's piece covers the challenges and dilemmas facing NATO regarding the rise of modern technologies and the imperative of "maintaining its competitive technological and operational advantage over adversaries and maintaining inter-operability." The "dual use conundrum," where the applications of a technology depends on the intent of its user, is one question that NATO will have to consider.
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Conceptually, technologies can be seen as evolutionarily advancing current capabilities or pressing to the bleeding edge and enabling disruptive, revolutionary capabilities developments. Greater strategic understanding of these game-changing technologies and the development of meaningful and testable metrics and models to help NATO address the challenges of this complex global environment is needed.
Published in: European Leadership Network
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A Story of Paradise: Interactive, Digitally Enhanced, and Radioactive
January 13, 2020
Nassim Parvin, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, co-authored a piece in the Association of Computing Machinery's Interactions magazine for the January/February issue.
Parvin's piece, written with Lisa Nathan of the University of British Columbia, considers how the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) continues to be oriented towards the status quo and a "market-based ethos," which the authors arque could be inadequate given the current and impending severity of the climate crisis.
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To date, the prevalent HCI response to the ever-worsening climate crisis appears to be to continue the status quo. Digitally enhanced homes, networked workspaces, and smart cities assume the West’s continued access to unlimited electric (and geopolitical) power, fast Internet, clean water, safe food, and secure housing. Perhaps the dominant approaches to HCI will continue, well aligned with visions of an interactive, digitally enhanced, radioactive future paradise. If that isn’t desirable, it is time to openly acknowledge that the climate crisis cannot be addressed by HCI through the same methods, approaches, and market-based ethos that is leading us to this paradise. Until we reject the assumptions listed above, our work will continue reproducing the pattern that is creating a future we can’t survive.
Published in: ACM Interactions
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Targeted killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani creates high risks for U.S.
January 10, 2020
Jenna Jordan, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was mentioned in the Tennessean article "Targeted killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani creates high risks for U.S" for her book Leadership Decapitation.
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As Georgia Tech professor Jenna Jordan has demonstrated in her recent book, “Leadership Decapitation” is unlikely to work against terrorist groups that are heavily bureaucratized. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force are established, structured organizations, not ragtag militias or loose networks of cells. They are likely to be resilient.
Read the article on the Tennessean.
Published in: Tennessean
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President Trump draws his red line
January 9, 2020
Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, USN (ret.), former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote "President Trump draws his red line" for The Hill.
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Whether one agrees with the elimination of General Qassem Soleimani as the correct means of signaling Iran, it was an important statement that a new red line is in effect. Proxy warfare – namely, a client organization taking hostile action in a manner hard to directly attribute to, but that everyone knows was ordered by, the patron – has always been convenient for these states.
Published in: The Hill
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Electoral cycles and incomplete public works projects: An analysis of the MPLAD scheme
January 8, 2020
Anjali Bohlken, an assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and Jonathan Darsey, a PhD candidate in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote "Electoral cycles and incomplete public works projects: An analysis of the MPLAD scheme" in Ideas for India.
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The second – which we term the ‘incumbent turnover’ channel – posits that the failure to complete projects is driven by the fact that elections frequently produce a change in the identity of the MP representing a given constituency. A newly elected MP may not be able to take credit for projects proposed by her predecessor and may therefore be reluctant to exert much effort to ensure the completion of such projects.
Find the article in Ideas for India website.
Published in: Ideas for India
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What were Iran's goals with the attack on bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops?
January 8, 2020
Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, USN (ret.), former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed by CBS News in "What were Iran's goals with the attack on bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops?"
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"This is a big sprawling airbase. Mostly desert," Winnefeld said. "They could have targeted these missiles into remote areas to avoid any possibility that an American could be killed. Or they might have done what we would've done, and that is perhaps target aircraft on the ramp, but not barracks or places where there would be a lot of people."
Find the interview on CBS News website.
Published in: CBS News
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