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Hot Commodities: Energy Diplomacy Takes on New Meaning
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Want to renegotiate the Iran deal? Much harder than it looks
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz. Donald Trump’s election places in immediate peril the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached by Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Ger... -
Explaining the Proposed Israeli Settlement Regularization Law
The Israeli government’s deadline to comply with a court-imposed order to demolish Amona, an illegal Israeli outpost in the West Bank, has spurred proposed legislation that aims to “legalize” many other ... -
Water Wars: Donald Trump Stirs Pot in South China Sea
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Expanding Congressional Oversight of Kill/Capture Ops Conducted by the Military: Section 1036 of the NDAA
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ("NDAA") is likely to complete its journey into law this week, and so the time has come to spotlight some of the nuggets in it that might matte... -
John Kerry’s Final Job is Not to Whitewash Obama’s Legacy on Syria
On Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the audience at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum that the events of August 2013—when Obama reneged on his intent to bomb Syrian military sites in resp... -
Middle East Ticker: Assad Regime Corners Rebels in Aleppo, U.S. Reauthorizes Iran Sanctions, and Islamic State Prepares Its Fallback Plan
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Did the Arab World Miss Its Chance to Democratize?
The Arab uprising in 2011 prompted months of excitement about the potential for governance reform and even democratization in the Arab world. But as the protests gave way to massacres, civil war, and ren... -
The White House Releases a "Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks" on American Uses of Military Force
Last year, Kenneth Anderson and I published a book entitled, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, which is a detailed analysis of the Obama Administration's na... -
The Viability of the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
It is increasingly common to hear the term “hybrid warfare” used to describe the complexities of the modern battlefield. When Russia uses a “combination of instruments, some military and some non-militar... -
Four Myths about the Kurds, Debunked
Editor’s Note: There is one bright spot in the darkness of the Middle East: the U.S. relationship with various Kurdish groups. In Iraq and Syria in particular, the Kurds seem the bulwark of U.S. efforts ... -
The Implications of the EU Delisting Bank Saderat Iran
In late October, the EU lifted sanctions on Bank Saderat Iran and its London subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC.
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