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Lawfare Under Cyber Attack: Stick With Us, Please
Well, that will teach us to post podcast interviews with NSA officials! We have been experiencing intermittent outages this morning. They appear to be the result of cyberattacks coming from IP addresses... -
The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution
That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard. The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation... -
"60 Minutes" on Snowden and NSA
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Oriana Skylar Mastro on "China’s ADIZ – A Successful Test of U.S. Resolve?"
China’s declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea on November 23 confounded many observers, including veteran China-watchers. The move alarmed China’s neighbors and w... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Let's start with Guantanamo: This year's NDAA has taken its final form, and Raffaela posted an initial summary of the provisions germane to detention. Ben linked us to the full text of the bill once it c... -
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Call for Papers: Stanford Journal of International Law
Jose Aleman, Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law, writes in with this seemingly quite Lawfare-relevant announcement: As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Commission Report approa... -
Lawfare To Your Inbox: Email Subscriptions
Lawfare's editorial team is pleased to unveil a new feature: email subscriptions to particular Lawfare content. Here's a rundown of the different types of emails you can subscribe to: Today's Headlines... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen on "NSA Revelations Have Irreparably Hurt U.S. Corporations in China"
Lawfare readers have followed and discussed the Snowden revelations with a mixture of dread and excitement. Our focus, understandably, is on the impact of the leaks on the intelligence community and on U... -
Readings: Chris Borgen on Realpolitik in Russia's 'Near Abroad'
Readings: Christopher Borgen, "Russia, Moldova, and the EU: Realpolitik as Normative Competition," Opinio Juris, October 23, 2013; Christopher Borgen, "The Protests in Ukraine and Normative Geopolitics,"... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Detention: In Ali v. Obama the D.C. Circuit denied Abdul Razak Ali's habeas appeal. -
"The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel," by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Erik Gartzke on "Fear and War in Cyberspace"
Cyberwar is all the rage, and with it, questions abound on what new technologies may mean for society and---Lawfare's specialties---the implications of these technologies on surveillance, privacy, intell... -
Readings: Caelum Liberam: Air Defense Identification Zones Outside Sovereign Airspace, by Peter A. Dutton
Given all the discussion around China's controversial announcement this past week of an "Air Defense Identification Zone" in the East China Sea, it seems like a good moment for a Reading on the law and s... -
Feedback Requested: Emails from Lawfare
We are in the process of upgrading our email subscription system, and would like your feedback on the structure of future emails that collect the previous day's posts. If you subscribe to our daily emai... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Afshon Ostovar on "Seven Things to Know About Iran’s Revolutionary Guards"
A few hours ago, the United States and five world powers reached an agreement with Iran to freeze and even roll back aspects of its nuclear program. Iran pops up on Lawfare from time to time, in part bec... -
Introducing "The Foreign Policy Essay"
As I mentioned the other day, I have asked my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman to curate a new feature on Lawfare: A weekly essay, to run on Sundays, on foreign and military affairs topics of interest to... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
NOCON//REL TO ALL: Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper declassified a trove of documents pertaining to pen register/trap-and-trace (PR/TT) collection pursuant to section 401 of FISA and b... -
NYU Center for Law and Security Conference: "Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats"
Here's is video of the conference on Tuesday at NYU's Center for Law and Security: "Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats." The first panel dealt with "The Role of the Courts in Intelligence an... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Times is reporting that an American drone has hit an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan early this morning. This is the first American drone strike outside of Pakistan's more turbulent tribal reg...
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