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Tombstone of Russian Power," the British scholar Anatol Lieven quotes Chechen friends who explained to him that it was not considered a sin to deny one's membership of a Sufi "vird" (brotherhood), or even to consume pork while serving in the Soviet ...

It is also an argument steeped in what Evgeny Morozov has termed “Internet-centrism.” Cyber-utopians and cyber-skeptics are similar in one major respect: they both ascribe too much power to the transformative power of the Internet, to the detriment of ...

A recent study conducted by the New America Foundation shows that the 270 reported drone strikes in northwestern Pakistan from 2004 to the present day have killed between 1661 and 2601 individuals, of whom around 1368 to 2130 were described as ...

And as Evgeny Morozov warned recently, much of this increased surveillance could be done with Western technologies: As countries like Belarus, Iran and Myanmar digest the lessons of the Arab Spring, their demand for monitoring technology will grow. ...

Rebecca Hamilton, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of a book on US foreign policy toward Darfur, called the creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board an "historic first step." "It is the first time that the US government has ...

WATCH: Sascha Meinrath of the New America Foundation opens up the "Internet in a Suitcase" and shows us what's inside. It looks like a normal suitcase, but it's anything but. Inside you will find a laptop, a small wireless antenna, flash discs, ...

In 2008, George W. Bush's last full year in office, the number of strikes was 33, according to statistics published by the New America Foundation think tank in Washington. In 2009, the number went up to 53; in 2010 it soared to 118. ...

According to the New America Foundation in Washington, there were just 41 attacks in the four years leading up to the end of 2008. From 2009 to the present, ...

Evgeny Morozov, a noted specialist on the use of new communications technologies to promote democratic values, has a new book titled "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side Of Internet Freedom." In it, he argues that hype about "Twitter revolutions" and the enormous potential of the Internet to promote open societies and roll back authoritarianism is naive and overblown. ...

As Evgeny Morozov's makes clear in his recent book, by over-focusing on the technology, we lose sight of what's really important. ...