National Security Between Theory and Practice
The course is designed to allow students to engage with experts from the public and private sectors, who in their daily professional occupation deal with decision-making and strategy regarding acute issues in world politics at the organizational, national, and international levels. For example, great powers tension and competition; challenges of the developing world; emerging technologies and public and private sector relations; crisis resolution; bilateral and multilateral collaborations; International organizations and/or corporations in world politics. The course will provide a conceptual and research framework to evaluate and analyze strategy and decision-making under the overarching study of international relations and security studies.
Technology in great power politics
What are the characteristics of the interconnection between technology and great power politics? What is the role of technology development in the power equation between the great powers, especially in the competition between them? How does that dynamic affect creating institutions and mechanisms such as nation-state clubs? Under what strategic conditions will a country be willing to share technological knowledge with other countries? Under what circumstances will national economic interests prevail over other political and international interests? What is the role of the private market in great power politics? How does the interrelation between states, corporations, and people change? On top of that, what is the impact of strategic culture on these relationships? The course will present students with a variety of issues that illustrate the multi-dimensional relationship between technology and great power politics through historical and contemporary examples.
Space Politics
The course deals with outer Space as both a strategic sphere and a strategic technological domain. It does so by discussing and analyzing political, security, and economic issues related to the interface between world politics and technology. Among the issues to be discussed: are the changing nature of power in the international system, the struggle for supremacy, the changes in the nature of war, strategies and mechanisms for influencing the flow of knowledge and technology, and more. All of these using a historical as well as a contemporary look at the events which took place in the Cold War, in the post-Cold War, today, and expected in the future.
Technology and National Security in Israel
The course focuses on the reciprocal effects between national security needs in Israel and technology from Israel's early days up until today. Among the issues discussed in the course: the role of technological development in Israel's security concept; The role of technology in Israel's equation of power over its rivals in the regional and global balance of power; the role of technology in Israel's relations with its allies, as well as in Israeli diplomacy in general. The course will provide acquaintance with the relevant players in public and private sectors in Israel, their interrelationships, their impact on the technological development in Israel, and the components of Israel's technological power.
Technology and National Security in Israel
The course focuses on the reciprocal effects between national security needs in Israel and technology from Israel's early days up until today. Among the issues discussed in the course: the role of technological development in Israel's security concept; The role of technology in Israel's equation of power over its rivals in the regional and global balance of power; the role of technology in Israel's relations with its allies, as well as in Israeli diplomacy in general. The course will provide acquaintance with the relevant players in public and private sectors in Israel, their interrelationships, their impact on the technological development in Israel, and the components of Israel's technological power.
Selected Presentations
The Dual-Use Nature of Space Technology from Considerable Threat to Opportunity, NASA History Symposium March 2021https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-kGTH80DE
Serving as a moderator of the “Space Agencies Session” at the 17th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference: https://vimeo.com/669740069/72e36104c7
A talk on “Women in Space” at the Ramon Space Education Conference 2019 )In Hebrew)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRu_8PEvEek
A talk on “Cyber Threat: Achilles Heel of Space Systems?” at the Israel Cyber Week 2014
Selected Op-Eds and Analysis
Paikowsky, D., "Why Russia Tested Its Anti-Satellite Weapon" Foreign Policy, (December 26, 2021), [On-line Analysis] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/26/putin-russia-tested-space-asat-satellite-weapon/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921
Paikowsky, D., "The Russian Test in Space Created Debris and Criticism, But There is Also A Good Side," Haaretz, November 18, 2021, https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/world/.premium-1.10397514
Paikowsky D., and Azoulay, T., "SPARC Brief – Israel," Space Policy and Research Center (SPARC) Washington University, July 2020, Available at: https://www.sparc.uw.edu/israel/
Paikowsky, D., "Five Thoughts On The Artemis Accords and Another One For Israel," SpaceWatch Global, June 3, 2020, https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/spacewatchgl-opinion-five-thoughts-on-the-artemis-accords-and-another-one-for-israel/