Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith, (Ret.), is the Director of the Georgian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi, Georgia.  He writes and lectures extensively on cybersecurity and the role of electronic media in international relations and security. In anarticle on the NextGov news website, Amb. Smith's comments on the part played by social media in the recent "Arab Spring" and other uprisings were quoted extensively, based on his web chat entitled "Social Media, Democracy and Oppression." Click here to read the article in full.