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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes, Cody Poplin, Quinta Jurecic, and Clara Spera released their major new reports on "sextortion." Cody Poplin featured Wittes’s online webcast discussing the new sextortion research. -
Putin's Pullout: A Failing Public Relations Campaign
Editor's Note: Russia won in Syria – or so Putin would like us to believe. The Russian intervention seemed to tip the balance of forces in Assad's favor, and Russia announced a pullout with its mission a... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Juliette Kayyem on ‘Security Mom’ and Building a More Resilient Nation
Last week, Juliette Kayyem joined Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of her new book, Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home. In the... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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Event Announcement: "Sextortion: Remote Sexual Assault"
Next Wednesday, May 11, Brookings is holding an online event to release a pair of papers on which I and a team of Lawfare folks have spent a great deal of time over the last several months. The subject i...
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