Asia has long been underrepresented in institutions of global governance. Recent challenges to those institutions have focused less on their legitimacy than on their effectiveness. Such engagement reflects a changed approach to sovereignty. Once it was understood primarily as a defense against...

When artificial intelligence (AI) produces artwork and text indistinguishable from human creations, are the economic foundations of creativity under threat? This paper considers the rise of tools such as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT and their impact on the knowledge economy. “Knowledge...

It is more than a decade since the former chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems infamously declared that privacy was dead, urging the reporters who had asked him about the subject to 'get over it'. That was before the launch of Facebook, Google’s Street View, the iPhone, and a...

In the past decade, “state-building” has moved from the margins to the mainstream. Bold experiments in East Timor and Kosovo have led to the creation of the independent state of Timor-Leste and the embryonic Republic of Kosovo. Less successful experiments continue in Afghanistan and Iraq. In...

The European Union has announced that it will overhaul its data protection rules in 2011. Later this month, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Commerce Department will release their own reports on online privacy. Meanwhile, as part of the much-hyped efforts to prepare for cyberwar, the U.S....

The founding myth of international law is the sovereign equality of its member states. How, then, can and should it accommodate the rise of one potential hegemon and the decline of another? This review essay discusses an important new book by Cai Congyan, of Xiamen University, that tries to...

Es gibt in den neun nuklear bewaffneten Staaten immer noch fast 18.000 Atomwaffen (Tabelle 1), von denen knapp 2.000 kurzfristig einsatzbereit sind. Mit Glück bleiben wir von ihrem erneuten Einsatz weitere sechs bis sieben Jahrzehnte verschont. Wahrscheinlicher ist jedoch, dass die Zahl der...