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Why Latin America Needs to Prepare Now for Election Meddling
The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections caught the world by surprise. This wasn’t because election interference of that kind hadn’t happened before—it had, just ask the Ukrainians—but simpl... -
Turkish and Russian Offensives Drive New Surge in Fighting in Syria
Turkey and Russia Bombard Syrian Towns -
Why the United States Won't Do 'Governance'
Governance is one of the most important foreign policy challenges—and among the most difficult. Poor governance is linked to civil wars, corruption and a lack of economic development, among other grave p... -
Summary: The U.K. Court of Appeal Ruling and What’s Next for the Investigatory Powers Act
The U.K. Court of Appeal has held that Section 1 of an expired state surveillance law, the 2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act, was unlawful as it related to “access to retained data,” or pe... -
Is President Trump Enabling the Islamic State’s Power of Persuasion?
Editor’s Note: Terrorists' use of the Internet in all its forms remains an important source of their power and influence. Michael Smith, an analyst focusing on jihadist influence operations, calls for a ... -
Trump's New Syria Strategy is Woefully Unrealistic
On January 17, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the Trump administration’s Syria strategy for the first time at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute. Tillerson’s speech cleared up much of the ... -
War, Threats of Force, and Law: Thoughts on North Korea
Does law—international jus ad bellum or domestic war powers—substantially influence U.S. threats of force against North Korea? Does law enhance or degrade deterrence of North Korean provocations? Does it... -
Boko Haram’s al-Qaeda Affiliation: A Response to ‘Five Myths about Boko Haram’
In a January 14, 2018, Lawfare article, Alexander Thurston wrote that “mounting evidence pushed me, despite my strong initial skepticism, to acknowledge and begin to analyze the ties and exchanges betwee... -
Is the Trump Administration Breaking the Law By Failing to Issue New Russia Sanctions?
Author’s Note: After drafting the post below, I belatedly checked Lawfare’s recent posts to ensure I’m not preempted. And there I found this terrific post by my colleague Megan Reiss, covering a great de... -
The Implementation of the Israeli Anti-BDS Travel Ban
Last March, the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, passed an amendment requiring the interior minister to deny entry to Israel to foreign nationals who “knowingly issued a public call to boycott the state of ... -
What’s Going on with Sanctions on Russia?
In August 2017, the Senate passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act 98-2; the House voted 419-3. -
Egypt Finds a Token Candidate to Run Against Sisi
U.S. Policy in Syria Vague as Turkish Offensive Continues
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