Information Operations
NESA-AFRICOM Transnational Threats Part II/II: A Look at Shared Illicit Activities – Illegal Mining, Cultural Smuggling, and Wildlife Crime Online Roundtable
On 4 October 2023, NESA Center Professor Anne Moisan and Academic Specialist Fahad Malaikah conducted the “Transnational Threats: A Look at Shared Illicit Activities – Illegal Mining, Cultural Smuggling, and Wildlife Crime” online roundtable, the last in the series of in-person and...
NESA-IEMed-AFRICOM The New Face of Security, Conflict and War Workshop
From 12–16 May 2025, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, in partnership with U.S. Africa Command and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), held a focused workshop with 31 participants in Casablanca, Morocco, on “The New Face of Security, Conflict and...
Security Nexus Perspective: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Security as Strategic Terrain
A new Security Nexus Perspective, “Framework for Understanding Cognitive Security as Strategic Terrain,”by Dr. Deon K. Canyon, associate dean of academics and professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, provides an in-depth look at how adversaries weaponize...
The Rise of Generative AI and the Coming Era of Social Media Manipulation 3.0
The RAND Corporation recently published a research report titled "The Rise of Generative AI and the Coming Era of Social Media Manipulation 3.0: Next-Generation Chinese Astroturfing and Coping with Ubiquitous AI." The authors argue that U.S. adversaries can use generative AI for social...