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Editor's Note: As the U.S. military draws down in Afghanistan, the large-scale conventional military component of the “war on terror” may be at an end. Yet Al Qaeda is tied to many of the insurgencies cu...
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Let’s start with this week’s big terrorism trial news, the speedy conviction of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, in federal court. Ritika noted the verdict as it happened and linked to ...
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Published by PublicAffairs (2013)
Reviewed by Alan Rozenshtein
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Editor’s Note: The United States has long favored a robust international order—but defining the salient characteristics of the international order and evaluating its structure and stability can be diffic...
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Let's start with NSA news. This week, attention shifted slightly from from NSA’s domestic 215 program to its foreign collection activities.
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Editor’s Note: Although the “Israel lobby” and the support of the American Jewish community for Israel have long received considerable attention, the U.S. evangelical community and its strong backing for...
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The big news this week was the public explosion of long-simmering tensions between CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over a soon-to-be-completed report on Bush-era interrogation techniques. Wells...
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For the Motion:
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law
Against the Motion:
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Published by Potomac Books (2013)
Reviewed by S. Yasir Latifi
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Editor’s Note: The Russian military occupation of the Crimea and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attempts to railroad a political settlement that would separate Crimea from the rest of Ukraine is the ...
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Editor’s Note: The United States has considerable economic resources, but it is often unable to harness the full power of these resources in its foreign policy. Any discussion of America’s decline or U.S...
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At Lawfare, the week began as usual: Wells posted our latest podcast, a discussion between a number of senior Brookings scholars on “The State of International Order.” Dan Byman wrote this week’s foreign...
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Events in Ukraine continue to dominate today’s national security conversations. The New York Times reports on Vladamir Putin’s first public remarks on the Crimean crisis, remarks that struck a defiant to...
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Addressing an American public skeptical of U.S. military intervention in Syria, President Barack Obama noted, “In that part of the world, there are ancient sectarian differences.” Indeed, religious confl...
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As the week began, Lawfare’s focus was on the courts.