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Rumors are swirling that the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) arbitral tribunal will release its long-awaited award in Philippines v. China this week. China has already said it will not com...
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Today, the Senate will vote on proposed gun control legislation. While it is unclear if Senate Democrats will be able to garner enough support from Republican colleagues to pass any of the Democrat-backe...
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Editor's Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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Editor's Note: Discussion of the Orlando killings has focused on the role of the Islamic State and the self-radicalization of so-called "Lone Wolves." The killings, however, also are an act of unspeakab...
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As I mentioned earlier, this past week I was privileged to attend a conference on the State of the Field in the study of Cyber Conflict sponsored by the Columbia School of International and Public Affair...
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Fred Kaplan joined me this week at the Hoover Book Soiree for a terrific discussion of his new book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War:
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Like most publications, Lawfare this week was dominated by the horrific shooting in Orlando.
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On Tuesday, Iran initiated proceedings against the United States in the ICJ under the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights, a bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Iran signed in 1955...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz.
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New details about Omar Mateen capture a life of violent outbursts that culminated in the tragedy of Orlando. The Wall Street Journal meticulously interviews a number of people who knew Mateen in the year...
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Boston University School of Law associate professor (and Lawfare contributor) Rebecca Ingber has a provocative new article posted to SSRN,
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I have intentionally refrained from commenting on the Orlando shootings to date, because the situation seemed so fluid—save for the magnitude of the violence and horror that one man apparently committed—...
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It is still the early days following the events of Orlando. It is possible that, as facts emerge, it will be clear that there was nothing more the FBI could have done to prevent the attack. However, ther...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on the Brookings publication Order from Chaos.
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Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Relations
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The United Nations yesterday said that the Islamic State is committing war crimes including genocide against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, according to a report reviewed by the Associated Pres...
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Greg Miller has an interesting and seemingly quite well-sourced article in the Washington Post today documenting (and offering explanations for) a significant decline in CIA drone strikes. To be clear, ...
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European hypocrisy on data protection is a lot like the weather. Everyone complains about it but no one does anything about it. Until today.
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How did Omar Mateen become a mass-killer, and could he have been stopped? The politics of the Orlando shooting have something for everyone, but very little clarity. And Russian hackers penetrate the Demo...
