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The Race to Caliphate
Editor's Note: This is the second of four excerpts from the new book, ISIS: The State of Terror, by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger. -
The Power of Citizenship Bias
Following up on my post from last week on the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament, which inter alia recommended that British law for the first time introduce dist... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
American troops are evacuating Yemen. The AP reports that the evacuation came as Al Qaeda militants seized the southern city of al-Houta, near the American al-Annad air base, where around 100 American so... -
Smart Mobs, Ultraviolence, and Civil Society: ISIS Innovations
Editor's Note: This is the first of four excerpts from the new book, ISIS: The State of Terror, by Jessica Stern and J.M. -
The Precise (and Narrow) Limits On U.S. Economic Espionage
This Intercept story on New Zealand’s surveillance of candidates for director general of the World Trade Organization sparked a related conversation yesterday on twitter about the exact scope of U.S. eco... -
The Week That Will Be
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Does the Supreme Court Follow the Recommendation of the Solicitor General in Foreign Relations Cases in which the Court has issued a CVSG?
Sometimes when making a decision whether to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case to which the United States is not a party, the Supreme Court formally issues a “call for the view of the So... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: AQ vs. IS and the Battle for the Soul of Jihad
Editor's Note: This piece is based on a longer article I co-authored with my Brookings colleague Jennifer R. Williams, which ran in The National Interest. *** -
Further Reflections on NOBUS (and an Approach for Balancing the Twin Needs for Offensive Capability and Better Defensive Security in Deployed Systems)
In a previous post, I commented on the Nobody-But-Us (NOBUS) view of the world. My original post says that the real technical question raised by NOBUS is how long nobody-but-us access can be kept for a g... -
The Lawfare Podcast: General Michael Lehnert on Closing GITMO
This week, we invited Major General Michael Lehnert (Ret.), the first commander of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to chat on the show. In January 2002, General Lehnert deployed to G... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday and gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party a decisive victory. Making almost as much news as the election results themselves were the tactics Net... -
Letter from Heads of SFRC and SASC to Kerry and Carter on South China Sea
Yesterday the Chairmen and Ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (McCain and Reed) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Corker and Menendez) sent a noteworthy letter to Secretarie...
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