For sanctions-watchers, the familiar rhythm of responding to new general licenses issued by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is typically uneventful. You receive an email from OFAC anno...

It is hardly uncommon for the United States to use force against AQAP targets in Yemen. Since 2012, we’ve averaged more than two dozen operations every year (see, e.g., here and here). By and large, th...

In an overwhelming show of “Brexit” support, the British House of Commons has voted to support a bill that grants Prime Minister Theresa May the power to begin Brexit negotiations.

Yesterday President Trump spoke to leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about the creation of “safe zones”—areas of protection for individuals displaced by the conflicts in Syria and perh...

With increased recognition of state-sponsored hacking come more questions about the remedy for such invasions. The U.S.

Editor’s Note: Programs for countering violent extremism—or CVE, as it is known in the jargon—may be in jeopardy. The incoming administration, in its rhetoric at least, has emphasized "tough" solutions t...

On Friday, President Donald Trump set into motion the fulfillment of one of his cornerstone campaign promises—restricting the entry of refugees and immigrants for the purposes of national security. Advoc...

Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” instituting a suspension of entry to the U.S. and issuan...

China, US allies, and other respond to President Trump's first week President Trump signs Executive Order withdrawaing the US from the TPP (Photo: EPA)

For President Trump, negative news coverage must be the handiwork of partisan enemies.