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This Week at the Military Commissions, 10/11 Session: Post-Hurricane Matthew Edition
We’re back at Guantanamo Bay for another round of pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case—one day later later than scheduled, thanks to Hurricane Matthew. But as of Tuesday, October 11th, personnel have retur... -
Deadlock at the Security Council on Syria: A Legal Perspective
This weekend marked the fifth time that Russia has used its veto power on a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Syria since the country’s uprising began on March 15, 2011. The veto block... -
Water Wars: A Waiting Game in the South China Sea
Duterte (perhaps) makes good on (some) threats to US relationship President Duterte and Defense Secretary Lorenzana oversee military exercise (Photo: AFP) -
Hot Commodities: The "Mending Fences" Edition
Pipe Dreams Come True at the World Energy Congress The World Energy Congress, a meeting of over 10,000 participants from over 85 countries focused on energy and hosted by the World Energy Council, conv... -
What Reinhold Niebuhr Can Tell Us About Donald Trump
Sinclair Lewis and Elia Kazan have had their Nostradamus moments this year, Lewis for the 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here (“predicted the rise of Donald Trump”—The Guardian) and Kazan for the 1957 film A... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: (Groucho) Marxism and Red Lines in Cyberspace
In episode 133, our guest is The Grugq, famous in hacker circles but less so among Washington policymakers. -
Online Incitement, Foreign Terrorist Fighters, and the Dutch Context Investigation
On December 10, 2015, the District Court of The Hague convicted eight men and one woman for a range of terrorist offenses in the biggest terrorism trial the Netherlands has ever seen. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States destroyed three Houthi-controlled radar installations in Yemen that were reportedly used to target an American warship in two failed missile attacks over the past four days, reports the... -
FCC to Vote on ISP Privacy Rules
In early 2015, the Federal Communications Commission reclassified broadband internet as a telecommunications service, a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, and approved long-deba... -
Lawful Hacking and the Case for a Strategic Approach to “Going Dark”
As part of a series on "Election 2016 and American's Future," I recently released a Brookings policy brief on a strategic approach to “Going Dark” for the next administration. Recognizing the current dea... -
Easing Access to Assets for Victims of Narcoterrorism
As the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act enjoys the lion’s share of attention, another bill aimed at facilitating compensation for American victims of terrorist attacks seems to be sailing below ... -
The Power To Wage War Successfully
A little more than 99 years ago, and several months after the United States declared its entry into the Great War against the Central Powers of Europe, Charles Evans Hughes declared in a widely publicize...
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