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Publications Downloads Authors note:  Thanks to Georgina Sinclair, Feargal Cochrane, and Tim French for their help with this briefing (all mistakes are the authors’ own). In the first half of 2020, the Oxford Research Group (ORG) held a series of four face-to-face and online roundtables to understand the risks and challenges remote warfare could present over the next five years and how the Integrated Review could address them. Three key questions emerged:   How should the UK respond to thre...

Francisco Letelier on Art and Civic Engagement in Chile TACOMA, Washington — Francisco Letelier’s father, Orlando Letelier, was a Chilean economist and ambassador to the U.S. under the Salvador Allende administration. Augusto Pinochet and his men assassinated Allende and took over the Chilean government on September 11, 1973, and soon after Orlando Letelier was exiled to the U.S. While a refugee in Washington D.C., Letelier worked to inform the public of the human rights violations happeni...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 In the last quarter-century, e-commerce has revolutionized businesses large and small, creating opportunities to reach a far broader customer base than ever before. Unfortunately, this unlimited online marketplace also has created new opportunities for counterfeit and pirated goods.  Bogus merchandise that once had to be sold at flea markets or from the trunks of cars now can be found for sale on websites visited by hundreds of millions of potential custo...

Bicyclist on city street, Nepal. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank In 2019, we engaged with a group of executives and practitioners from the education, finance and media sectors in Kathmandu to discuss their awareness and practices in using data to support operations and decision-making. A director of a private college remarked that data can help track a students performance and enable educators to customize their approach to each student. He, however, added the need for technical skills ...

Posted by Josh Rudolph | May 24, 2018 The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness. qī bù jiǎng 七不讲  The seven don’t mentions tie down the Statue of Liberty. (Artist: Badiucao 巴丢草) Seven politically sens...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   Dec 10, 2020 08:44 AM EST Business owners place their company on the market when they are ready to retire or step down from ownership. Business owners sell when they do not have someone in their family to take the reins. The process is far more complicated than selling a home, and a broker will assist the business owner and identify what the owner must show buyers. The process requires a full assessment of the company and how it earns profits. The broker understand...