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President Obama to Issue a Statement on Iraq
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Readings: Can Non-State Actors Mount an Armed Attack? by Kimberly N. Trapp
Among the issues separating the American understanding of international law regarding transnational non-state actor armed groups from that of the "international community" (or at least an influential and... -
House Hearings This Morning on FBI Oversight and Bergdahl Exchange
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Readings: The Diffusion of Drone Warfare: Industrial, Infrastructural and Organizational Constraints by Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli
Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o... -
Foreign Relations Law Casebook Update
Because Curtis Bradley and I have a new edition of our Foreign Relations Law casebook, we only have a slim summer update, here. It has an excerpt of B -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Let's start with developments around the world: The Taliban have claimed responsibility for this weekend's brazen assault on Pakistan's largest international airport that has resulted in the deaths of a... -
You Can Help Us Redesign Lawfare
We are thinking about a major redesign of the Lawfare web site, and we need reader help to get this going. As our content streams have increased and diversified, the blog form has become increasingly ina... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Foreign Policy Essay: It is Time to Fund Domestic Counter-Radicalization
Editor’s Note: Countering violent extremism (CVE) is as necessary for fighting terrorism as it is challenging. Both in concept and in practice, CVE programs are difficult to execute: radicalization remai... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl dominated this week's news---both nationally and on Lawfare. In exchange for Bergdahl’s liberation, the United States freed five Taliban leaders detained at Guantanamo B... -
Video of Today's SSCI Hearing
I haven't watched it yet, as I was doing a different event at the time of the hearing. But thanks to the magic of CSPAN and it's belated, but very welcome propensity for embed codes . . -
Live at 2PM EST: Brookings Event on the Future of U.S. Surveillance Authorities
Today is the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures, and Ben is moderating a debate on the future of U.S. intelligence collection authorities. The resolution is “U.S. surveillance authorities requi... -
Russell Wheeler: The Changing Composition of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and What If Anything To Do About It (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
The question of the composition of the FISA Court---politically, demographically, and in terms of professional background---has arisen periodically throughout the last year. It has given rise to news cov... -
The Week That Will Be
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What Pakistanis Think About U.S. Drone Strikes and Why
Editor’s Note: The Pakistani people’s deep opposition to U.S. drone strikes against targets in Pakistan is common wisdom, and some observers see the associated anger as a major source of the country’s ra... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Let’s start this week with famous American expatriate, Edward Snowden, whose interview with NBC’s Brian Williams aired on Wednesday. Ben was "unmoved" by it, pointing to Snowden’s unwillingness to submit... -
"A Debate One Year after Snowden: The Future of U.S. Surveillance Authorities"
We will hold an event at the Brookings Institution a week from tomorrow, which marks the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures. Lawfare readers will be familiar with the all the participants and t... -
The Week That Will Be
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"No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State," by Glenn Greenwald
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Hamas’s Islamist Foes
Editor’s Note: The United States rightly regards the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Palestinian organization Hamas as a terrorist group, but Hamas is also the de facto government of the Gaza Strip. There ...
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