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Law and Conflict for the Contemporary Practitioner
PDF version A review of Kenneth Watkin's Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
The Week That Will Be
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Hoover Book Soiree: Christopher Moran on "Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Wednesday, December 7. -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Ammar Abdulhamid kicked off a Trump-heavy week on the site with his perspective as a Syrian-American on the election of Donald Trump. -
Distributed Risk: On Conflicts, Doesn’t Matter If Trump Is a Saint
The debate over the unprecedented conflicts of interest created by President-elect Donald Trump’s financial empire is at an impasse, perhaps in part because we have adopted a narrow understanding of what... -
The Inner Life of a Dictatorship
PDF version A review of Oleg Khlevniuk's Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale University Press, reprint edition, 2016). *** -
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“Deep Risk” under Trump: Bannon and Flynn Are a National Security Problem
In the weeks immediately following his historic 2008 win, President-elect Obama was careful not to elaborate on the foreign policy positions on which he had campaigned. Commentators noted his likely desi... -
New Declaration on UAV Exports Unlikely to Reduce Drone Proliferation
Editor's Note: The use of drones is at the center of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policy – and, perhaps more importantly, at the center of many Lawfare discussions. One frequent concern is... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Bill Banks on ‘Soldiers on the Homefront’
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Bill Banks, Professor of Law at Syracuse University and the Founding Director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism,... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault flagged the risks of the normalization and use of torture in the next administration. Bobby Chesney listed the executive orders that Trump is most likely to repeal when he come... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President-elect Donald Trump has offered key national security positions to conservative hardliners, the Washington Post reports. Trump will nominate Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS) to head the CIA and... -
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Reminder: Hoover Book Soiree: Bill Banks on "Soldiers on the Homefront: The Domestic Role of the American Military"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place today, Monday, November 14th. Benjamin Wittes will interview Bill Banks on his new book, Soldiers on t... -
Pence as Trump’s National Security Surrogate?
Much was said about the powerful role Vice President-elect Mike Pence could be expected to play in the Trump administration well before he was named to head the transition team. -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Quinta Jurecic compiled Lawfare’s coverage of the 2016 election. Susan Hennessey made the case for experts to be willing to serve in the Trump administration, despite their moral qualms. -
Hoover Book Soiree: Bill Banks on "Soldiers on the Homefront: The Domestic Role of the American Military"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Monday, November 14th. Benjamin Wittes will interview Bill Banks on his new book, Soldiers on the H... -
Pre-Election Disclosures: How Does, and Should, DOJ Analyze Edge Cases?
Two days ago, Hillary Clinton was formally cleared, again, of the specter of criminal wrongdoing in the FBI’s email investigation. The only cloud left is the one history is deciding whether to permanentl... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, November 7th at 3pm: The Brookings Institution will host an event on Stopping North Korea, Inc.: Sanctions Effectiveness and Unintended ... -
The Lawfare Podcast: David Priess on ‘The President's Book of Secrets’
Two weeks ago, Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith sat down with David Priess at the Hoover Institution for a Hoover Book Soiree on Priess’s new book, The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligen...
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