Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The traditional distinction between the core and the periphery is becoming ...

Software systems are among the most complex of the artifacts that our species creates. In the design, use, and evolution of such systems, a dynamic tension exists between what I have come to call the ...

The definition of “empire” presupposes a relationship between a dominant core and peripheries. This talk turns the metropole into a conceptual and empirical puzzle, asking why, what, how and when ...