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The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell), and Cornell's Language Resource Center.

Dr. Levi West will articulate a framework for understanding the manner in which innovative forms of violence, narrative and communicative dynamics, and emergent information and communications technologies can be integrated by terrorists and other violent non-state actors to achieve strategic effect.

The framework will be applied to a contemporary case study, namely the Islamic State, while additionally making use of historical case studies including transatlantic anarchist terrorism in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and political violence undertaken in support of the liberation of Palestine in the aftermath of the 1967 War. The framework seeks to provide explanatory insight into the means by which asymmetrically weak actors are able to cause disproportionately consequential strategic effect on their adversaries. The framework can assist with understanding the non-kinetic purposes and impacts of terrorist violence, while also providing a degree of insight into the strategic utility of highly calibrated, choreographed, targeted violence. In identifying a consistent strategic calculus that underpins terrorist violence across temporal and ideological contexts, the framework also suggests that it is possible to understand the enduring nature and strategic logic to terrorist violence, despite its frequently changing character.

About the Speaker

Dr. Levi West is the Director of Terrorism Studies at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, and the Executive Director of Leviathan Analysis, a bespoke consulting firm that provides research, advisory, and professional development services to the law enforcement and national security sectors.

Moderator

Paul Lushenko is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and a PhD student in International Relations at Cornell University.

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Presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Co-sponsored by the Department of Government and the Gender and Security Sector Lab.

Emma Belcher, president of Ploughshares Fund, joins a national panel of experts for a vital look at the future of nuclear security policy at a time when the United States, Russia, and other nations continue to maintain enough nuclear weapons to destroy life on earth.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine emphasizes the ever-present threat of nuclear war, raising urgent questions:

Did the U.S. possession of weapons utterly fail to deter Russian aggression? Did Russia’s possession of nuclear weapons embolden it to invade Ukraine, a nation that gave up nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War? What is the wisdom and what are the risks of continuing to maintain large numbers of nuclear weapons in a world marked by growing authoritarianism in Russia, China, and elsewhere? What are the implications of the crisis in Ukraine for the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons? Please join us for this virtual conversation. Register now!

Introduction

Peter Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University

Panelists
Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Pavel Podvig, Senior Researcher, United Nations Institute For Disarmament Research

Moderator
Emma Belcher, President, Ploughshares Fund

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Hosted by the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, with additional support from Einaudi's Institute for European Studies and the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs. The event is part of the Einaudi Center's Democratic Threats and Resilience research priority.

With the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) comes a clear need for regulation. The Cornell China Center invites you to join us for Artificial Intelligence Regulation Across the World, a virtual event on AI regulation at local and global scales.

The European Union has set world standards with its General Data Protection Regulation, and is mulling over an Artificial Intelligence Act. China has developed a series of regulations and rules for algorithmic supervision and accountability, and in the U.S., a legal framework for regulating AI is slowly taking shape.

Do these worldwide regulations share any strategic similarities or common values? How is AI interacting with intellectual property rights? How can AI guidelines enhance accessibility for citizens with disabilities? This panel brings together distinguished theorists and practitioners to address AI questions critical to our world today.

Panelists:
Rostam J. Neuwirth, Professor of Law, Head of the Department of Global Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, “The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Subliminal Manipulation of Human Mind and Behavior”
Xiaoping Wu, Counsellor in the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the World Trade Organization, “Reflections on Intellectual Property Related Policy, and Legal Issues Arising from the Interaction of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Rights”
Rui Guo, Associate Professor of Law, Institute of Law and Technology Researcher, and Director of Center for Social Responsibility and Governance at Renmin University of China, “Stereotypes and AI Fairness”
Linghan Zhang, Professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, “Algorithmic Supervision in China: Filing for Records, Examination, and Accountability”

Moderators:
Xingzhong Yu, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Chinese Law, Cornell Law School
Ying Hua, Cornell China Center Director

Language: English

Event time: Friday, 27 May 2022, 8:00–9:30 a.m. NY / 2:00–3:30 p.m. Geneva / 8:00–9:30 p.m. Beijing