CMIST Scientists & Strategists - Adam Segal

— 6:30pm

Location:
In Person - Grand Room, Posner Hall 340

Speaker:
ADAM SEGAL, Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security, and, Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
https://www.cfr.org/expert/adam-segal

The United States has increasingly with worked with and depended on privately owned companies to spur innovation and advance foreign policy interests. Starting in the 1990s, with the help of government funding of basic R&D and a hands-off approach to regulation, technology companies commercialized the internet, created the smartphone, and build global social media platforms. The U.S. tech sector dominated its competitors in other countries, supplied the technology needed for defense modernization, and promoted American power. This relationship is now being remade through shifts in domestic politics and geopolitical competition, especially with China. What does this mean for US national security and foreign policy interests? 

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Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force reports Confronting Reality in Cyberspace, Innovation and National Security, Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet, and Chinese Military Power. His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016) describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others. From April 2023 to June 2024, Segal was a senior advisor in the State Department's Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, where he led the development of the United States International Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Segal has a BA and PhD in government from Cornell University, and an MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University 

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