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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, August 8th at 5:30pm: The Young Professionals in International Affairs and the Osgood Center for International Studies will host a Disc...
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At a time when the Republican Party has fractured on virtually every front, moments of unity are rare. One such opportunity appeared last week courtesy of a Wall Street Journal story that disclosed how t...
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Editor's Note: The Islamic State emerged as social media was taking off around the globe, and endless news stories and pundit commentary discusses its skill at mastering this new form of communication. W...
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Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan came to the Brookings Institution on July 13th for a conversation with Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel on “CIA’s strategy in the face of emer...
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Nicholas Weaver offered political campaigns a few suggestions for how they can enhance their resilience to a cyberattack.
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This document was released yesterday. I haven't read it yet, but it is entitled "Procedures for Approving Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets Located Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hos...
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In a New York Times editorial, former acting and deputy director of the CIA Michael J. Morell lambasts Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency and a “threat to national security.” Morell accuses Trump o...
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Shortly after we released our sextortion reports back in May, Sen. Barbara Boxer wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking data on the scope and magnitude of the problem: "court records sh...
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As a tumultuous week for the Trump campaign draws to a close, a new Fox News poll released Wednesday evening shows Hillary Clinton with a ten-point lead over her Republican rival.
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Last month, the Islamic State’s official media outlet, al-Furqān, released its first video in over a year, entitled, “The Structure of the Khilafah.” Al-Furqān is known for producing the group’s most hor...
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Josh Rogin of the Washington Post reports that “President Obama has decided to seek a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would call for an end to nuclear testing, a move that leading law...
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Over drinks the other evening, I played a parlor game with several of my companions: I asked each to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how nervous he or she was about a Donald Trump presidency, figuring into th...
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“Lawful hacking” is an interesting and potentially very useful future path for law enforcement and the intelligence community. But lawyers and policymakers rushing to address potential problems are getti...
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An American woman is dead and five others are injured after a Norwegian man of Somali origin attacked them with a knife in London. Police described the incident as a “spontaneous attack” and said the 19 ...
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On Wednesday in Fairfax, Virginia, the FBI arrested Nicholas Young, a 36-year-old police officer with the Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority, on charges of attempting to provide material su...
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A few years ago, it seemed that Mexico’s security challenges were everywhere. They were featured on CNN, in Time Magazine, and in the agendas of most bilateral meetings.
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The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi examines “Emni,” a wing of the Islamic State that focuses on external operations and internal policing, and which appears to be the main actor behind the group’s ex...
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I had been looking forward to this very long story in the New Yorker, in part because the title is interesting. "Why Obama Has Failed to Close Guantanamo: Congress is blamed for preventing the President ...
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Pretrial hearings continued last Wednesday morning at Guantanamo Bay in the 9/11 case.
