Jason Ryan Thompson

KU Leuven | ku leuven · Faculty of Social Sciences

The definition of how contemporary statehood is defined has evolved throughout the centuries since its inception during the Peace of Westphalia. The interweaving between modern governments and technology along with developments like the Estonian Data Embassy Initiative shows that this evolution is continuing today. In many states around the world,...

The State of Indiana currently manages a vote by email system for overseas and military residents in all state and federal elections. This system, which requires voters to waive their right to privacy, introduces several problems which impede traditional pillars of modern democracies, namely ballot secrecy and electronic privacy. This paper explore...

Over fifty years on from the activation of the Antarctic Treaty System, the seven Antarctic claimant states continue to assert their sovereignty over their suspended territorial claims on the Antarctic continent. Since the start of Antarctic colonization over a century ago, the claimant states performed acts of sovereignty on territory that strengt...