Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs Program develops practical insights to help policymakers understand and navigate how technology shapes the evolution of the political and economic relationships of major powers.
The United States, France, and the UK have emerged as key players in countering the proliferation of commercial hacking tools, but divergent strategies threaten the efficacy of individual frameworks.
Russia’s disruptive cyber and information operations against Ukraine have proven less decisive—and its victims more resilient—than previously feared. This dynamic follows similar failures by states to coerce or punish targeted populations into submission, suggesting the need to tailor Western threat perceptions of Russian activity—and Western aspirations—in cyberspace.
From COVID-19 misinformation to authoritarian crackdowns on democratic protests or hybrid warfare involving information manipulation, the negative impacts that crises have on the information environment can be challenging to reverse, threatening the physical safety of civilians and the democratic stability of societies.
Please join Anu Bradford for an engaging online discussion of Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology and the choices we face as societies and individuals, the forces that shape those choices, and the huge stakes involved for everyone who uses digital technologies.
What might be the implications of a cyberweapon that can hack satellites?
Join us for a special event featuring the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in conversation with Carnegie’s Dan Baer on combatting digital authoritarianism.
The Ukraine war has exposed profound differences in the Russian and U.S. approaches to offensive cyber operations. This can be seen in every aspect from the aims they have set to how they approach collateral damage and blowback.
Kyiv sees Ukraine's reconstruction as an opportunity to turn the country into a European tech hub — to do that it needs help.
Espionage is a fact of life, yet U.S. discourse often fails to distinguish severe incidents from banal ones. If this pattern continues, the next Chinese spying scandal—however trivial—may spark a true bilateral crisis.
There’s a lot of legitimate concerns with China’s rise and its use of advanced technology. But if Washington moves too fast and too far to cut off the technological relationship with China, it could damage U.S. interests as well.
merica has embarked on one of its most difficult and dangerous international challenges since the Cold War. The task: reversing decades of economic and technological integration with its chief rival, China.
As America’s conscious foray into industrial policy, the CHIPS Act is an important political breakthrough and a potentially transformative piece of legislation.
