Adam Segal

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Adam Segal
Born (1968-09-29) September 29, 1968 (age 54)
Alma mater Cornell University
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
OccupationCybersecurity expert
Children2

Adam Segal (born September 29, 1968) is an American cybersecurity expert. He serves as the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of three monographs on technology.

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Early life

Adam Segal was born on September 29, 1968, [1] attended Memphis University School, and graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in Government. [2] He received a master's degree from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. [2] He returned to Cornell University, where he received a PhD in Government. [2]

Career

Segal is a cybersecurity expert, as well as an expert on Chinese technology policy. He served as the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. [2] Before working at the Council, he was a China analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, MIT's Center for International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University.

Segal is the author of three books. His first book, Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, was reviewed in Pacific Affairs by Eric Thun, [3] The China Quarterly by Cong Cao, [4] Leonardo by Stefaan Van Ryssen, [5] Perspectives on Politics by Thomas G. Moore, [6] The China Review by Mark Jacobs, [7] The China Journal by Bennis Wai-yip So. [8] Foreign Affairs by Lucian Pye, [9] and Perspectives Chinoises by Gilles Guiheux. [10] His second book, Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge, was reviewed in the Journal of International Affairs by Christopher Reim and Foreign Affairs by Andrew Nathan. [11] [12] His third book, Hacked World Order was reviewed by Gary Schmitt in The Wall Street Journal [13] and in Lawfare by Henry Farrel. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Adam Segal". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Collection). Gale. 2017. ISBN   9780787639952 . Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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  3. ↑ Thun, Eric (Spring 2004). "Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal". Pacific Affairs. 77 (1): 105–106. JSTOR   40022283.
  4. ↑ Cao, Cong (June 2003). "Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal". The China Quarterly. 174: 538–539. doi:10.1017/s0009443903320315. JSTOR   20059018.
  5. ↑ Van Ryssen, Stefaan (2004). "Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon, High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal". Leonardo. 37 (3): 255. doi:10.1162/leon.2004.37.3.255. JSTOR   1577738.
  6. ↑ Moore, Thomas G. (March 2004). "Reviewed Works: Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China by Yi-min Lin; Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal". Perspectives on Politics. 2 (1): 178–180. doi:10.1017/S1537592704800690. JSTOR   3688406.
  7. ↑ Jacobs, Mark (Fall 2004). "Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, A Council on Foreign Relations Book Series by Adam Segal". The China Review. 4 (2): 205–207. JSTOR   23461893.
  8. ↑ Wai-yip So, Bennis (January 2004). "Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal". The China Journal. 51: 167–169. doi:10.2307/3182164. JSTOR   3182164.
  9. ↑ Pye, Lucian W. (November 2003). "Reviewed Works: China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age by Evan A. Feigenbaum; Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal". Foreign Affairs. 82 (6): 171–172. doi:10.2307/20033807. JSTOR   20033807.
  10. ↑ Guiheux, Gilles (May 2003). "Reviewed Works: Digital Dragon. High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal; Back-Alley Banking, Private entrepreneurs in China by Kellee S. Tsai". Perspectives Chinoises. 77: 82–84. JSTOR   24071286.
  11. ↑ Reim, Christopher (Fall 2010). "Reviewed Work: Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge by Adam Segal". Journal of International Affairs. 64 (1): 229–230. JSTOR   24385198.
  12. ↑ Nathan, Andrew J. (May 2011). "Reviewed Work: Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge by ADAM SEGAL". Foreign Affairs. 90 (3): 167. JSTOR   23039456.
  13. ↑ Schmitt, Gary (February 25, 2016). "Waging War in Zeros and Ones". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Here Be Dragons" . Retrieved 2016-09-23.
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