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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and DIA Director Lt. General Vincent Stewart will provide an overview of the intelligence community's Worldwide Threat Assessment before the Senate Armed S...
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released its most recent Recommendations Assessment Report on Friday, February 5th. The Recommendations Assessment Report follows up on the 22 reco...
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Over the weekend, North Korea launched a long-range rocket carrying what it claimed to be a satellite. The move by the hermit kingdom prompted renewed international condemnation just a few weeks after th...
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There's a headline I never expected to write. Among my many criticisms of the New York Times editorial page, after all, I would never until today have accused it of being soft on sexual violence.
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In anticipation of Tuesday’s primaries, Republican presidential candidates took to the debate stage in New Hampshire on Saturday evening. Moderated by David Muir and Martha Raddatz, the debate featured G...
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Last week, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of several Alien Tort Statute claims against Yusuf Ali, a former Colonel in the Somali National Army who served under the military dictatorship of Moh...
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Recently I returned from a trip to Cuba, where I had the opportunity to interview Celeste Pino Canales, a highly regarded professor of public international law at the University of Havana. I pursued the ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, February 8th at 10 am: The Brookings Institution will host an event on the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the United States. Brookings Senior...
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Editor's Note: The 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris highlighted not only the terrorist threat to Europe, but also the many European failings in intelligence and border security. Marc Hecker of the Fre...
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In a recent visit to PACOM with other Stanford colleagues, we had the chance to observe an Army brigade combat team exercise. This exercise involved an opposing force that was operating under free-play ...
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As Jack noted earlier this week, the new issue of the Harvard National Security Law Journal (for which Jack, Bobby, Ben and I serve as advisors) contains a number of ground-breaking articles, including p...
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This week as Iowa voters took to the caucuses, Brookings hosted a panel discussion on defense strategy for the next president. The panel, moderated by Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O’Hanlon, included R...
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Jonathan Zittrain gave us some good and some troubling news: we are not going dark.
Susan Landau reflected on the new report “Don’t Panic” and stated that we have a strong reason for national policy to...
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Today is the second day of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin's conference on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity. You can watch the conference's panels live here:
Belo...
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By now, of course, readers of this blog will be familiar with the fact that a UN Working Group has concluded (by a vote of 3-1, with one abstention) that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is bein...
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On Thursday night, the Democratic presidential candidates took to the stage in New Hampshire for their fifth debate in anticipation of Tuesday’s primary. The debate was moderated by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow...
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President Obama’s national security aides and top military advisers are pressing him to approve military force in order to counter Islamic State militants that analysts say are forming a new safe haven i...
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In December, following the Planned Parenthood shooting and San Bernardino attacks, I shared some thoughts on the differences between domestic and international terrorism laws in the U.S. There, I argued ...
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Last week, the D.C. Circuit removed a hurdle for a pending suit against the Republic of Hungary and the Republic’s state-owned railway company. Judge Sri Srinivasan, writing for a three judge panel in Si...
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On Saturday, the United States Navy conducted its second freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in recent months. This time, the destroyer USS Curtiss Wilbur transited within twelve nautical miles of Tr...