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Hoover Book Soiree: David Priess on "The President's Book of Secrets"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on October 13, when Jack interviews David Priess about his new book: The President's Book of Secrets: ... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, October 3rd at 4pm: The Institute of World Politics will host a lecture by Mark F. Cancian on Aligning Strategy, Programs, and Resources... -
Ideology à la Carte: Why Lone Actor Terrorists Choose and Fuse Ideologies
Editor's Note: The succession of so-called "Lone Wolf" attacks that have hit America in the last year have generated a wave of panic about the Islamic State's global reach. Yet many of the individuals se... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Rosa Brooks on ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon. The book covers an... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes shared seven questions on national security and executive powers that he would have liked to ask Donald Trump in this week’s presidential debate. He also reflected on the debate by asking... -
Decryption Mandates and Global Internet Freedom: Toward a Pragmatic Approach
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Hoover Book Soiree, Reminder: Rosa Brooks on "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Wednesday, when Ben interviews Rosa Brooks about her new book: How Everything Became War and the Mi... -
The Week That Will Be
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Saudi Arabia: Why We Need This Flawed Ally
Editor's Note: The West's relationship with its Saudi ally is one of the world's most troubling alliances. Saudi Arabia's conservative culture rejects many Western ideals, and many observers see the King... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes argued that President Obama should not pardon Edward Snowden but should consider commuting Chelsea Manning’s sentence. Wittes also responded to critics of the Washing... -
Rebecca Ingber on Co-Belligerency in International Law and Under the AUMF
Rebecca Ingber (international law professor at Boston University and Lawfare contributor) has posted a new draft paper to SSRN (forthcoming in 42 Yale Journal of International Law No. 1, 2017), titled “C... -
Attribution of Malicious Cyber Incidents: From Soup to Nuts
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The Evolving Law of Global Killing
PDF version A review of Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights, edited by Jens David Ohlin (Cambridge University Press, 2016). *** -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, September 19th at 4pm: Arthur T. Downey will lecture on his recent book, The Cold War: Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises in an event at the... -
The Islamic State's "Homo Jihadus"
Editor's Note: It's hard to know what aspect of the Islamic State is most disturbing, but high on the list is the use of children as suicide bombers and executioners. Jacob Olidort of the Washington Inst... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Timothy Edgar explained the nuanced reasons why he has publicly voiced support for Edward Snowden’s campaign for a public pardon. Jack Goldsmith responded decisively both by predicting that President Oba... -
On National Security Law Scholarship: A Reply to Huq's Critique
On Tuesday, our friend and colleague Aziz Huq posted to ACSblog a fairly critical assessment of national security law scholarship—and, indeed, national security law as an academic discipline, writ large. -
Livestream of "The National Security Division at 10: Past, Present, and Future"
A major event celebrating ten years of the Justice Department's National Security Division is taking place at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Here's the livestream: Here's how CSI... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, September 12th at 2:30pm: The Brookings Institution will host a discussion featuring Shirley Lin on her new book, Taiwan's China Dilemma... -
Tamil Political Prisoners in Sri Lanka: A Road to Nowhere?
Editor's Note: Sri Lanka represents that rare turnaround in counterinsurgency, where a beleaguered government fighting one of the world’s most formidable insurgencies—the Tamil Tigers—gained momentum and...
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