Foreign Relations & International Law

Putin may have good reasons for dialing back cooperation with Tehran, depending on the wars in Iran and Ukraine.

Fraudulent Call Centers as Means of War: Patriotic Failure to Prosecute Organized Crime—Uncontrolled Wildfire or Russia’s False Claims

A Review of Timothy W. Ryback, “53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026).

A State Department report obtained by Lawfare found a more than 12-year backlog for reviewing allegations of human rights violations committed by Israeli military units receiving U.S. assistance.

China’s new immersion lithography tools are not yet production-ready, but continued allied and U.S. servicing accelerates their progress. Existing U.S. export control rules already offer a response.

It is unclear whether AI model weights are speech. But any regime that licenses them should be built with First Amendment protections regardless.

What does “alignment” require?

Natural gas gets the headlines, but Russian nuclear fuel powers nearly half the country’s grid.

The United States has halted funding for finding and destroying chemical weapons, putting critical work at risk.

A review of Omer Bartov, “Israel: What Went Wrong?” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026)