The World Affairs Forum and Ferguson Library presents, Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies & National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“Individuals and civil society now participate in global politics in new ways, but sovereign states can do astonishing and terrifying things that no collection of citizens or subjects can carry out. We will all be caught in the fallout as the great powers, and many of the lesser ones, attack, surveil, influence, steal from and trade with each other.” -Dr. Adam Segal from “The Hacked World Order”

An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Adam Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He currently writes for the blog, “Net Politics.”

Before coming to CFR, Segal was an arms control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. There, he wrote about missile defense, nuclear weapons, and Asian security issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the MIT Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. Segal is the author of Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge and Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, as well as several articles and book chapters on Chinese technology policy.

Dr. Segal’s book “The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age”, describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. It will be available for purchase and autographing at the event.

The event is free to all Forum members, students and faculty. The public fee to attend is $20. To reserve a place, visit www.worldaffairsforum.org or call us at (203) 356-0340.