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Summer 2014 Lawfare Internship
Our wonderful intern, Yishai Schwartz, has to leave soon, and we're looking for someone to take his place this summer. -
Call for Participants: The 7th Annual National Security Law Workshop (May 15-16, Charlottesville)
I'm very pleased to announce the call for participants in the 7th Annual National Security Law Workshop, which will take place this year on May 15 and 16 in Charlottesville, Virginia. As in the past, Ge... -
The Week That Will Be
Perceptive Lawfare readers may have noticed that we recently eliminated our rolling announcements ticker from the sidebar of the main page. Have no fear, Lawfare is still committed to posting relevant an... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy—Better Than It Looks
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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week began, Ben and Jane critiqued a New York Times story rich with ominous warnings and innuendo that basically amounted to the Australians having spied on Indonesian government officials, includ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
After a set of emergency talks involving multiple countries, the government of Ukraine has announced a tentative resolution to the bloody civil conflict centered in Kiev. The deal does not include Presid... -
New America Foundation Event on "The Ever-Falling Cost of Surveillance"
Haven't watched this yet, but it looks very interesting: PARTICIPANTS Moderator Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Reporter, Wall Street Journal @jenvalentino Featured Speakers Kevin Bankston Policy Director,... -
A Security Update
Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my post Saturday morning about our security issues. Thanks to all who made contributions. Thanks to the cybersecurity professionals (and amateurs) who have re... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: ISIS’s Rejection of Al Qaeda—The End of an Era?
Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As this past week began, Ben expressed some exasperation with Angela Merkel and State Department officials for whining like a “bunch of babies” in their responses to the release of an undiplomatic phone ... -
Our Recent Cybersecurity Problems---and an Appeal for Reader Help
I am writing both to update readers on the attacks on Lawfare that took place this week and to make a frank fundraising appeal for reader help in addressing them. As readers know, we have been hit since... -
Readings: A Critique of 'Jus Post Bellum' in International Law, by Eric De Brabandere
In the past two decades or so, an enormous amount of academic international law and policy attention has gone to the concept of jus post bellum, or "post conflict justice." There are various ways of ren... -
"The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster," by Edward Lucas
Published by Amazon Kindle Single (2014) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes Over the past few weeks, several members of congressional intelligence committees have intimated that Edward Snowden might have bee... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Drivers of Terrorist Innovation—Al Qaeda and the Case of 9/11
Editor’s Note: Terrorist groups typically rely on tried and true tactics such as shootings, bombings, and of course suicide attacks. These and a handful of other methods represent the vast majority of te... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week began, we found ourselves in the middle of one of our own stories as we persevered through a new round of cyberattacks. Nevertheless Lawfare continued apace. Ben brought us the next installm... -
A Conversation at the Berkman Center---And the Comments of Tim Berners-Lee
Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni... -
Readings: "Charting the Legal Geography of NIAC" by Michael Schmitt
I'll be participating this week in a Naval War College workshop on "Legal Implications of Autonomous Weapons," and since my presentation topic at the workshop is "area of operations" with respect to auto... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The (Many) Hurdles to U.S. Stabilization Operations
Editor’s Note: The United States has repeatedly intervened to stabilize conflicts and build state capacity in the developing world. Most attention focuses on the desirability of military intervention an... -
Readings: "Using Force on Land to Suppress Piracy at Sea," by Steven R. Obert
Although piracy in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates is sharply down in the last year or two, threats remain and an increase in attacks is far from impossible. After all, little has been done to disrup... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
After weeks dominated by talk of surveillance reform, Lawfare is slowly returning to its usual eclectic self. Wells flagged Guantanamo detainee Al Rahabi’s hearing with the Periodic Review Board.
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