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Out of the Blue and into the Black?
PDF version A review of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan (Simon & Schuster 2016) -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 13th at 12 pm: The Stimson Center will hold an event examining China's Policy Towards the Korean Peninsula. For a full agenda of th... -
Five Tips for Policy Relevance
In the latest issue of Security Studies, my Georgetown colleague Matt Kroenig and I wrote a long essay on how academics might write more effectively for policy audiences (and yes, Lawfare gets a nice men... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
After VICE News published a mammoth 11,000 word piece on Saturday afternoon claiming Edward Snowden repeatedly sought to file his surveillance concerns with the NSA before he became a household name for ... -
Invitation to the Hoover Book Soiree: Fred Kaplan on "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on June 15, when Ben interviews Fred Kaplan about his new book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of ... -
National Security in a Data Age
Editor's Note: Data should drive decision-making – the real question is how much should it do so? As big data and data analytics expand, it is tempting to assume they can solve many of the problems forei... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
The 9/11 Military Commissions continued down at Guantanamo Bay this week. Susan Hennessey shared Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins’ statements in advance of the hearing. Clara Spera provided coverage of the ... -
A Exciting Opportunity for a Young Lawyer to Work with Hoover and Lawfare
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, ... -
Popularizing the History of International Criminal Law
PDF VERSION A review of Phillippe Sands' East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (Knopf, 2016). -
Sahand Moarefy: Partially Unwinding Sanctions: The Problematic Construct of Sanctions Relief in the JCPOA (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
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... -
150 Years of Hate: The Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
Editor's Note: Although the presidential candidates, our media, and most importantly, Lawfare, tend to focus on the danger from Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, right-wing groups have been a more lethal t... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in a U.S. air strike over the weekend, throwing the Taliban into the second leadership shake-up in less than a year. Robert Chesney questio... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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The Week That Will Be
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Cruel to be Kind: Authoritarian Counterinsurgency and the Winning of Hearts and Minds
Editor's Note: Dictators fight insurgents wrong. Rather than redress grievances and win over the locals, they repress and coopt, tolerating corruption and abuses. David Ucko of National Defense Universit... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jefferson Powell on ‘Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of U.S. Drone War’
Four years ago, Anwar al Awlaki—an American citizen—was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen, marking the first targeted killing of a U.S. citizen by the U.S. government. While the attack occurred... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Military Commission hearings started up again down at Guantanamo this week, and as always, we had them covered. Cody Poplin shared a statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins prio... -
Call for Papers: The "Bobby R. Inman Award" for Student Scholarship on Intelligence
The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the second round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelli... -
The Week That Will Be
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Rethinking Refugees
Last October, before the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, I argued that the security risks from Syrian refugees are, in general, low, but the potential ones are considerable if th...
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