Weaponized Interdependence or Shared Resilience? Rethinking Undersea Cable Security in a Fragmenting Order
| Volume 9
Brendon J. CannonUndersea communication cables have historically operated within an interconnected global system characterized by cooperative redundancy and routing agreements. This paper argues that emerging bifurcation threatens to weaken resilience by reducing redundancy, narrowing routing options and increasing incentives for disruption.
Global Climate Policy Durability Amid American Backtracking: Cooling Sector Chemicals in the Kigali Era
| Volume 9
Barry RabeThis paper examines the current understudied international climate policy regime, considering its key design features and future viability amid recent US policy shifts hostile to many global and domestic climate mitigation efforts.
Exploring the Influence of Big Tech Lobbying on Canadian Tech Policy
| Volume 9
Renee Black, Edward Wu, Femi Gbolahan, YeJin Kang and Sadaf QureshiThis paper demonstrates the need for a comprehensive research agenda to better understand the evolving policy influence environment, and create policy options to strengthen oversight, restore public trust and advance balanced digital and AI policy.