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Senate Passes Russia Sanctions Amendment
Last week, the Senate took a significant step towards imposing additional sanctions on Russia. The latest step came in the form of an amendment to S.722, the Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act. -
A Disabled Executive: The Special Counsel Investigation and Presidential Immunities
The press reports that the White House has suffered from “mass hysteria” over the Special Counsel investigation and the president’s responses to it. Our most senior government officials, including our vi... -
Globalism and its Discontents
PDF version A review of The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 by Or Rosenboim (Princeton University Press, 2017). *** -
Why the U.S. Can’t Take Sides in South China Sea Sovereignty Disputes, Even Against China
Despite last month’s U.S. Navy operation near Chinese-occupied Mischief Reef in the South China Sea, influential commentators have offered increasingly dire warnings about the failure of U.S. policy to p... -
Containing Iran and Maintaining Legitimacy
The threat posed by the Iranian regime was one focus of a recent Academic Exchange (AE) retreat of International Relations specialists and international lawyers. Even with the reelection of President Has... -
Why the United States Needs Foreign Law Enforcement to Succeed Against the Islamic State
Editor’s Note: American leaders have long recognized that police and other law-enforcement officials are on counterterrorism's front lines and that foreign governments play a vital role in disrupting ter... -
Impeaching Trump is a Heavy Lift
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on FixGov. Suppose most Americans were to conclude that President Trump is unfit for office. How long would it take to remove him? If President Nixon’s ex... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Dan Drezner on ‘The Ideas Industry’
This week, the Lawfare Podcast brings you Jack Goldsmith's interview with Dan Drezner at the Hoover Book Soirée about Drezner's new book, “The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats ar... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Sunday, Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic discussed the statements made by President Trump's personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz following former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony last week before the S... -
New York Times Publishes Declassified Report on Post-Snowden Reforms
The New York Times has published a declassified version of a 2016 report from the Defense Department Inspector General that assesses the reforms implemented to improve security of the NSA's most sensitiv... -
The Cyclical Politics of Counterterrorism
Why didn’t the United States invade Afghanistan and destroy Al Qaeda before September 11, 2001?
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