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Back in January, Sebastian Brady and I wrote a piece on the history and legal issues surrounding the border enclaves divided between India and Bangladesh.
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I’d like to announce the new Journal of Cybersecurity, an interdisciplinary journal encouraging submissions in all aspects of cybersecurity. This new journal will publish original research in the inheren...
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I’d like to announce the new Journal of Cybersecurity, an interdisciplinary journal encouraging submissions in all aspects of cybersecurity. This new journal will publish original research in the inheren...
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Editor’s Note: Drones and their use have long fascinated and frustrated many of us at Lawfare. Part of the fascination stems from the new ground being broken, both technologically and especially at the p...
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On Monday, the United States celebrated Memorial Day. President Obama marked the holiday by giving an address at Arlington Cemetery. He noted that this was “the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the Un...
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The common denominator of nettlesome war powers questions is who should make the difficult and freighted decisions about whether the nation goes to war, how it fights a war, and when it ends a war. Surpr...
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At 12:15 pm, Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at Brookings on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its implications for European security. You can watch the discussion below or follow ...
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I want to add briefly to Jack's note and pay tribute to Dan Meltzer, who died Sunday. I had the privilege of working with Dan when he served as Deputy White Counsel under President Obama and then as a m...
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My colleague and friend Dan Meltzer passed away Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. Here is what Dean Martha Minow wrote:
Colleagues, it is with profound sadness that I write to let you know th...
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Monday, May 25th: Happy Memorial Day!
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Editor’s Note: National governments seem to be failing throughout the Middle East. The United States, unfortunately, does not usually have the luxury of waiting until a strong government returns, and bui...
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Editor’s Note: National governments seem to be failing throughout the Middle East. The United States, unfortunately, does not usually have the luxury of waiting until a strong government returns, and bui...
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As the battle over the USA Freedom Act heated up in the Senate, Harley Geiger of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) outlined just how much would a sunset of Section 215 change the surveillance...
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Providing physical security to its citizens is undoubtedly the core function of the state. As readers of Lawfare well know, it is hard work to figure out how that security function should be reconciled w...
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The University of Adelaide has a free new MOOC called Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security that is taught by Melissa de Zwart, Dale Stephens, and Rebecca LaForgia. The web page and registration can be f...
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Editor’s Note: After 9/11 Ayman al-Zawahiri became the face of Al Qaeda, giving speeches and sending out videos to guide the now-scattered jihadist flock. And of course after Bin Ladin’s death Zawahiri's...
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Published by Cornell UP (Paperback 2011)
Reviewed by Matthew Sprinkel
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Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in ACLU v. Clapper that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephony metadata went beyond the powers granted by Section 215 of the Patriot Act. As you might...
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Books reviewed in this essay:
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, by Shane Harris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014)