"Cyber-warfare" used to refer to damaging or stealing data and the networks on which they rely. Now, cyber-weapons can destroy physical infrastructure as well. As reported in CSMonitor: Cyber security experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy...

I think an ad campaign like this is just what the United Nations needs to get the US to pay its dues. Or to fulfill pledges to fund the Millennium Development Goals. Or to galvanize public support for a global Tobin tax.

Joshua Busby has a new book out on transnational campaigns that might be the best new contribution to the advocacy networks literature since Keck and Sikkink's original Activists Beyond Borders. In Moral Movements and Foreign Policy, Busby proposes a theory of the conditions under which such...