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The Week That Will Be
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Reminder, July 12 Hoover Book Soiree: Graham Allison on "Thucydides's Trap"
Remember to join us at Hoover this Wednesday, July 12, when Jack Goldsmith will interview Graham Allison on his new book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?. -
Terrorists and Territory: What Jordan Can Teach Us about Managing Jihadists
Editor’s Note: Since 9/11, the United States has pushed all its allies to crack down on terrorism to prevent them from launching attacks or aiding others who might do so. President Trump has doubled down... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes announced Lawfare's new partnership with Foreign Policy magazine called Lawfare@FP. In their inaugural column as part of the partnership, they explain that the possibi... -
Emoluments Again: What an Unpresidential Legal Argument Looks Like
On Tuesday, on Yale Journal on Regulation's Notice & Comment blog, Andy Grewal posted an interesting critique of my Lawfare piece interpreting the Office of Legal Counsel and Comptroller General opinions... -
Announcing a New Partnership with Foreign Policy
We are excited to announce a new partnership between Lawfare and Foreign Policy magazine. Starting today, FP will be launching a new “Lawfare@FP” feed, featuring analysis and commentary from Lawfare cont... -
The Islamic State’s Married Ideology: Something Borrowed, Something New
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State and al-Qaeda are often, correctly, portrayed as bitter rivals: They compete for recruits and money, and in Syria their forces have repeatedly turned their guns on each ot... -
Reading the Office of Legal Counsel on Emoluments: Do Super-Rich Presidents Get a Pass?
I wrote last November that the Foreign Emoluments Clause “is on its face a national security provision designed to protect the country from officers too enmeshed with foreign interests.” If the Justice D... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Thursday evening, Shane Harris of the Wall Street Journal reported that longtime Republican operative Peter W. Smith reached out to several hacker groups, including two Russian groups, in an attempt t... -
July 12 Hoover Book Soiree: Graham Allison's "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?"
On Wednesday, July 12, Jack Goldsmith will interview Graham Allison on his new book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? The White House is reportedly reading it; you shoul... -
Truthiness in the Cold War
PDF version A review of Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe by Melissa Feinberg (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017). *** -
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The Supreme Court’s Cert Grant in the Travel Ban Cases: A Guide for the Perplexed
Today the Supreme Court announced in a per curiam decision that it will hear the travel ban cases in October. But its decision granting certiorari and staying the injunctions in part is clearly by itself... -
Too Many Generals in the Situation Room?
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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Developments in Syria and rising tensions with Russia drove foreign policy news this week. On Sunday, a U.S. F/A-18 shot down a manned Syrian government Su-22 bomber that had attacked the U.S.-backed Syr... -
The National Security Law Podcast: An AUMF for Westeros?
In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Ziglar v. Abbasi in more detail than you could possibly want. What’s that one even about, you ask? Damages for ... -
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Globalism and its Discontents
PDF version A review of The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 by Or Rosenboim (Princeton University Press, 2017). *** -
Why the United States Needs Foreign Law Enforcement to Succeed Against the Islamic State
Editor’s Note: American leaders have long recognized that police and other law-enforcement officials are on counterterrorism's front lines and that foreign governments play a vital role in disrupting ter... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Dan Drezner on ‘The Ideas Industry’
This week, the Lawfare Podcast brings you Jack Goldsmith's interview with Dan Drezner at the Hoover Book Soirée about Drezner's new book, “The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats ar...
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