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Environment and conflict: New principles for environmental conduct
(© United Nations, 1992)The crucial connections between environment and conflict among nations continue to escape political scrutiny. The international community as yet pays little attention to such connections, thereby missing the opportunity ... -
Environment, development, and international assistance: Crucial linkages
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Environmentalism
(© Oxford University Press, 1993) -
EQUAL VOTES, EQUAL MONEY:COURT-ORDERED REDISTRICTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OFPUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN THE AMERICAN STATES
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Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: Toward Foundations for Global Policy
(© MIT Political Science Department, 2022-12-21)Matters of ethics are becoming more salient at all levels of politics, almost everywhere. In the scientific community, ethics in AI is increasingly gaining attention. The fact is that the rate of change in AI innovations ... -
Evaluating New Voting Technologies in Latin America
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-12-14)Having remained virtually unchanged since the enactment of universal and secret suffrage at the end of the nineteenth century, voting procedures are undergoing a radical transformation in many countries through the ... -
The evolution of network based cybersecurity norms: An analytical narrative
(© IEEE, 2014-08-13)We examine coordination dilemmas in cybersecurity policy by using an already developed evolutionary game theoretical model [2]. We suggest that norms to encourage network based security systems may not evolve independently ... -
Experiences and challenges with using CERT data to analyze international cyber security.
(© Elsevier B.V., 2009-09)With the increasing interconnection of computer networks and sophistication of cyber attacks, it is important to understand the dynamics of such situations, especially in regards to cyber international relations. The ... -
Explorations in cyber international relations (ECIR)—data dashboard report #1: CERT data sources and prototype dashboard system
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-08-10)Growing global interconnection and interdependency of computer networks, in combination with increased sophistication of cyber attacks over time, demonstrate the need for better understanding of the collective and cooperative ... -
Explorations in international relations: Final program report
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)In international relations, the traditional approaches to theory and research, practice, and policy were derived from experiences in the 19th and 20th centuries. But cyberspace, shaped by human ingenuity, is a venue for ... -
Exploring terms and taxonomies relating to the cyber international relations research field: Or are "cyberspace" and "cyber space" the same?
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-08)This project has at least two facets to it: (1) advancing the algorithms in the sub-field of bibliometrics often referred to as "text mining" whereby hundreds of thousands of documents (such as journal articles) are scanned ... -
February 2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections
(2009-11-25)The February 2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections studied experiences with election administration during the "Super Tuesday" presidential primary in 2008. The survey covered the 15 states that held primaries ... -
Feedback complexity in integrated climate-economy models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Finding order in a contentious Internet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This inquiry started with the simple question, "Who manages the Internet infrastructure and how?" Since, this question evolved into an evaluation of the routing system and the institutions that manage it. This institutional ... -
Flooding The Vote: Hurricane Katrina and Voter Participation in New Orleans
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-11-10)The flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina resulted in a massive and rapid exodus of individuals from New Orleans to locations around the United States. In the midst of the hurricane recovery, the City of New Orleans ... -
Forecasting in international relations: Problems and prospects
(© Gorden and Breach Science Publishers Ltd., 1974)The author argues that forecasting is a problem of reasoning, of reducing uncertainty, and of bounded speculation, and she identifies four types of forecasting goals: (1) understanding the unknown (i.e., prophecy), (2) ... -
Forecasting in international relations: Theory, methods, problems, prospects
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Framework for Global Accord on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-07-09)Advances in information and communication technologies – global Internet, social media, Internet of Things, and a range of related science-driven innovations and generative and emergent technologies – continue to shape a ... -
The future of Bahrain as a financial center
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)