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The fight for Fallujah is finally over. Flanked by triumphant senior Iraqi military officials, Iraq Prime Minister Haider al Abadi disclosed on Sunday night that the country’s security forces had recaptu... -
The Week That Will Be
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A Global Downturn in Human Rights: Implications for International Law
There is a downturn in civil and political rights in many of the world’s largest and most geopolitically significant countries, especially Russia, China, and Turkey, but also other countries such as Vene... -
An American (Diplomat Not) in Paris
PDF version A review of To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect by Mary Thompson-Jones (W.W. Norton 2016) *** -
Want to Ease Tensions in the Middle East? Science Diplomacy Can Help
Editor's Note: For those of us focused on the Middle East, the bad news seems unending: war, terrorism, poor governance, and other problems plague the region and stump U.S. policymakers. But the United S... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Mona Sedky on Prosecuting Sextortion
A few weeks ago, The Brookings Institution released a pair of reports on the problem of sextortion, authored by me, Cody Poplin, Quinta Jurecic, and Clara Spera. (See Lawfare's previous coverage here). -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union on Thursday night stunned the political establishment throughout the West. Zoe Bedell wrote a post on the legal and regulatory implications of Brexit. -
Microsoft Proposes an Independent Body for Making Attribution Judgments
Yesterday, Scott Charney, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing announced a new white paper about cybersecurity norms for nation-states and the global information and communicati... -
Toward Solutions to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
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Today's Headlines and Commenary
Britain rocked the Continent last night after voters decided last night that it was time for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. -
Strategic Effects of Proliferating Military UAVs in the Asia Pacific Region
Although drone warfare to date has overwhelmingly been analyzed in the context of US operations against non-state actors - Al Qaeda or affiliated groups or, more recently, ISIS - much of the impact of dr... -
The Path Forward on Encryption: The McCaul-Warner Commission
The current encryption debate is gridlocked. For the past year, privacy advocates, civil libertarians, Department of Justice attorneys, cryptographers, and others have been stonewalling one another, exch...
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