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The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, July 21st at 9 am: The Center for a New American Security and the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law will ... -
Governance and Security Sector Assistance: The Missing Link—Part II
Editor's Note: Last week we looked at how the lack of attention to governance has hindered effective U.S. security sector assistance. This week Gordon Adams of American University and Richard Sokolsky of... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Dominating the news, and Lawfare's coverage: Iran. Four deadlines and 18 days of final discussions later, the United States reached a historic accord with Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear capabilities in r... -
The Week that Will Be
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Governance and Security Sector Assistance: The Missing Link—Part I
Editor's Note: We’re breaking new ground here at the Foreign Policy Essay—a two-part series. So many of the problems identified in past Foreign Policy Essays and for Lawfare in general revolve directly o... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare kicked off the week with a post from FBI Director James Comey on encryption and “going dark,” following up on his conversation with Ben on the topic last week. “My job,” Director Comey wrote, “is... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #74: An Interview with Catherine Lotrionte
Our guest commentator for episode 74 is Catherine Lotrionte, a recognized expert on international cyberlaw and the associate director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security at Georgetown U... -
Days of Rage in the 1970s: America's Homegrown, Violent, Bomb-Setting Radical Underground
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence By Bryan Burrough Penguin Random House (2015) -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, July 7th at 9:30 am: The Senate Committee on Armed Services will hold a hearing on Counter-ISIL Strategy. Testimony will be provided by... -
Afghanistan After the Drawdown
Editor’s Note: Afghanistan was once the poster child for the war on terrorism but, almost 15 years after the fall of the Taliban, many Americans see it as yet another failed intervention in the greater M... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Wednesday, Ben spoke with FBI Director James Comey about the growing number of Americans engaging with ISIS through Twitter and mobile apps. Concerns are mounting for the FBI about the effect of end-t... -
Foreign Relations Law Casebook Supplement
Here is the summer 2015 supplement for my casebook (with Curtis Bradley), Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2014). This supplement contains, among other things, an excerpt of (and Not... -
David E. Pozen on "Privacy-Privacy Tradeoffs"
Readers who found engaging my recent paper with Jodie Liu, "The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats," will certainly want to check out a new draft paper by Columbia Law School profes... -
The Week that Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 29th at 9 am: The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts a discussion on Examining the Anti-ISIS Strategy with Stephe... -
Understanding the U.S. Military’s Morale “Crisis”
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Army and the military as a whole seem to have fallen on hard times: polls, studies, and tragedies like suicides and drug abuse all suggest an institution in crisis. Raphael Cohen ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Monday saw the release of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry report on last summer’s conflict in Gaza. Ben provided us with links to the report and the accompanying press r... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 22nd at 12 pm: The Wilson Center will host U.S. Senator Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT), who will outline A New Foreign Policy for Ame... -
Why Arab States are Bad at Counterinsurgency
Editor’s Note: The United States and its allies outsource most of their counterterrorism. Allies like Egypt and Jordan and frenemies like Pakistan do much of the heavy lifting, using their armies and int... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A U.S. airstrike in Libya conducted Sunday may have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a former al Qaeda leader responsible for the 2013 seizure of an Algerian gas plant that resulted in the deaths of 38 hostages.
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