Adam Segal

Adam Segal is 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 was senior advisor in the State Department’s Cyber and Digital Policy Bureau from April 2023 to July 2024.

Articles by Adam Segal

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Brave New Techno-Nationalist World

Argument

Tobias Feakin, Adam Segal

June 4, 2025, 12:01 AM

People walk past a Huawei store in Beijing on Dec. 10, 2018. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)

Is an Iron Curtain Falling Across Tech?

ChinaFile

Adam Segal, Cobus van Staden, Elsa B. Kania, Samm Sacks, Elliott Zaagman

February 4, 2019, 1:38 PM

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The People’s Republic of Hacking

Argument

January 31, 2013, 5:45 PM

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The Cyber Trade War

Argument

October 25, 2012, 2:56 PM

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5 Secrets Anonymous Should Steal from China

Lists

April 20, 2012, 9:32 PM

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The Great Invention Race

Argument

January 27, 2011, 8:36 PM

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Time to Defriend China

Argument

Elizabeth Economy, Adam Segal

May 24, 2010, 2:59 PM

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The Chinese Internet Century

Argument

January 26, 2010, 10:32 PM

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