“AI transforms the very nature of great power competition, conflict, and in fact, international cooperation in new and meaningful ways.” So begins the report on our latest GNSI Tampa Summit, featuring the Great Power Competition Conference. Look for it soon.

GNSI Decision Brief: Repression Without Borders: How Nations Silence Critics Abroad

Transnational repression knows no borders. TNR can take many forms ranging from physical attacks such as the brazen murder of American citizen and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, coercion by proxy (e.g., the threatening of family members) to the use of technology to monitor and harass a country's citizens living abroad.

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Current Spotlight (Vol 17, No 1)

The Ability of Russia's Federal Security Service to Influence the Executive Through its Apparatus of Seconded Employees A look at the FSB’s historical and present-day legal basis for using officers as opposed to government entities within Russia’s executive branch. Written by: Vadym Chernysh

From the JSS Archives (Vol 16, No 2) Extended Space Deterrence: Providing Security Assurance in Extended Space Deterrence: Providing Security Assurance in Space. An argument that traditional deterrence by punishment is ineffective in outer space, taking into consideration the U.S.’ military and economic dependencies of space-based platforms. Written by Kiseok Michael Kang.

The two Iran experts break down the effectiveness of sanctions placed in the region and how Iran may react in the future as a result.

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