The quantum era is around the corner. Major tech companies are announcing impressive breakthroughs in quantum advantage, quantum error correction, and quantum networking. Competing
quantum chips are also reaching new heights, from IBM’s Condor breaking the 1,000-qubit barrier in December 2023 signaling the ability to dramatically expand computational [...]
Nearly a year after U.S. agencies identified one of the most severe cyber breaches of U.S. telecommunications companies, domestic cybersecurity is weaker, not stronger. In
September 2024, media reports confirmed that Salt Typhoon, a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-backed cyber group, infiltrated nine major telecommunications [...]
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United Nations member States are formulating their positions on a proposed treaty to prevent and punish crimes against humanity, ahead of a January 2026 “preparatory committee”
meeting that will lay the groundwork for amendments and full negotiations on a draft that has been under consideration since 2019. [...]
For several months, the Trump administration has aggressively deployed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) to impose (and in some cases subsequently
modify) significant tariffs on U.S. trading partners. IEEPA is a very broadly-worded statute empowering the president to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary [...]
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Along with a group of other Israeli international law scholars, we have sent an urgent letter to Israel’s Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff, the Attorney General
and other senior officials concerning a plan, presented by the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, to “concentrate” the population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian [...]
Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 15, as he seeks confirmation to be the next U.S. permanent
representative to the United Nations. One group of people who very much want to see him succeed are the representatives of other U.N. [...]
The arms control framework that once served as a cornerstone of strategic stability is no longer fit for purpose. With New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) standing
as the last surviving pillar of a Cold War-era arms control architecture, it is clear that the world it was built for no longer exists. [...]
