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Reuters is reporting that Israeli officials are speaking with the prosector of the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding its preliminary examination in Palestine. Israel is not an ICC member and h...
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We have previously written about why we think JASTA—the bill
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Maybe Wall Street holds the key to stopping cyber attacks. That's the fascinating idea behind the concept of "cyber bonds" -- something new to me. Here's the provacative summary from the Wired article ...
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The October 2015 bombing of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan has amplified a long-simmering discussion regarding the ability of the American military to objectively condu...
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A "must read" article from Nolan Peterson. It begins:
SINJAR, Iraq—Evil doesn’t always reveal itself through goose-stepping armies or skyscrapers collapsing on a clear autumn day.
Sometimes, it’s on...
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This article originally appeared on Markaz.
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Please circulate this exciting job announcement to anyone you think might be interested in it. If you just graduated from law school, have a demonstrated track record of interest in Lawfare type issues, ...
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Ben has begun a series of posts on the prospect of a Trump Presidency and the power he might wield -- and Carrie has written a short follow up. It seems apt, therefore, to at least acknowledge one predi...
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A review of Phillippe Sands' East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Knopf, 2016).
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Session One
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Episode 118 digs deep into DARPA’s cybersecurity research program with our guest, Angelos Keromytis, associate professor at Columbia and Program Manager for the Information Innovation Office at DARPA. An...
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U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are launching an offensive to capture the Manbij pocket from the Islamic State after weeks of quiet preparations. According to Reuters, the Manbij pocket is a crucial swath ...
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DOD has announced an airstrike on an al Shabaab official in Somalia:
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Last week, Ben published the first in a series of posts analyzing Trump and the Powers of the American Presidency. In that post, he proposed a theory that, despite concerns that a would-be President Trum...
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In the eyes of the DC foreign policy establishment, issuing threats without any intention to back them up with action is a cardinal sin. Bluffing, the thinking along think tank row goes, dangerously unde...
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Business as Usual?
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One of my favorite parts of life here at the University of Texas at Austin is the center I direct: The Strauss Center for International Security & Law. The key thing to understand about the Strauss Cen...
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“A human catastrophe is unfolding in Fallujah,” says Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. An estimated 50,000 civilians still remain trapped in the Iraqi city as the battle to reclaim ...
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Lawfare is pleased to announced the publication of a new working paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Partially Unwinding Sanctions: The Problematic Construct of Sanctions Relief in the JCPOA by S...
