New Blog, Net Politics, Decodes Internet Governance and Cybersecurity

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched Net Politics, a blog on cybersecurity, Internet governance, digital trade, and privacy. It will provide original insight, highlight notable research and analysis, and introduce new voices on the emerging politics of cyberspace.

“The rapid diffusion and adoption of digital and communication technologies raises profound questions for security, prosperity, privacy, and global order. This blog aims to further the debate about these important issues,” explains the blog’s lead author and Director of CFR’s Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Adam Segal, in his initial post.

Visit Net Politics for insight on

—whether the United States is capable of hacking into China’s power grid;
—the costs and benefits of cyberattacks;
—why the recent International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conference did not become a battlefield for two competing visions of Internet governance;
—what the United States hoped to gain from the ITU conference;
—the deepening divide in U.S.-China cyber relations; as well as
—weekly round-ups of related news developments; and
—interviews with practitioners, thought leaders, and technology executives such as Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Google; and Fadi Chehadé, chief executive officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Net Politics joins CFR’s impressive roster of seventeen blogs that explore a broad range of issues, including conflict prevention, energy and the environment, as well as regions such as the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

View Net Politics, subscribe to its email updates and RSS feed at: http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber. Follow Segal on Twitter @adschina.