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The other day, I posted this video of the North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations giving a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations:
The question of whether or not a think tank like CFR should hos...
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) last week announced a new project on “Ethical Autonomy.” (This is a topic on which Ken and I have written, most recently in a piece co-authored with Daniel R...
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Marty Lederman and I have been engaged in a debate over the past few weeks, and last Monday he wrote a lengthy and thoughtful “Monday Reflection” over at Just Security concerning some of my arguments her...
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On Monday, November 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the long-awaited final act in a decade-plus-long saga surrounding the passport of an American boy born in Jerusal...
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Belatedly, I want to join the discussion about the extraterritorial application of the Convention Against Torture (CAT), about which Jack commented on Friday, drawing on an article by Charlie Savage earl...
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Editor’s Note: The savage fighting in Syria and now Iraq seems to grow worse every month. As the U.S. role in the conflict grows, so too does the need to understand the motivations of the fighters, inclu...
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By now you know: Wednesday morning saw oral argument in Al Bahlul v. United States---the first since the D.C. Circuit's en banc decision, and the matter's remand to a three judge panel consisting of Circ...
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Ben outlined all the many, surprising---and mutually contradictory---ways in which President Obama is “right.”
Cody noted that ISIS and al Nusra appear to have obtained drone technology and shared some ...
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A doctor in New York who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea has contracted the disease, the New York Times reports.
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A week ago Charlie Savage reported that the Obama administration “is considering reaffirming the Bush administration’s position that the [Convention Against Torture(CAT)] imposes no legal obligation on t...
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Since the introduction of drone technology to the battlefield, countless academics, policymakers, and military planners have pondered a disturbing question: what happens when other countries or non-state...
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The Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress kicked off two days ago in Beijing.
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If you don’t follow the jihadi social media scene, you may not know that the first issue of Al Qaeda’s online English-language magazine, Resurgence, has just hit webstands across the terrorist world. For...
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President Obama is right.
He was right when he said, as a presidential candidate in 2007, that “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a ...
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Or so I gather from this Washington Post piece, which opens thusly:
A Russian captured fighting with insurgents in Afghanistan and held for years at a detention facility near Bagram air base will be flow...
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In Ottawa yesterday, a gunman “shot and killed a soldier,” Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, before entering Canada’s Parliament building, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with MPs. In a firefight that...
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Our guest today is Tom Finan, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist and Counsel at DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), where he is currently working on policy issues related to cybersecu...
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In light of both our prior exchange and my Just Security post from yesterday, I only have two new points to make in response to Peter Margulies' post on yesterday's D.C.
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Some may wish that Ex Parte Quirin, the Supreme Court’s case upholding the military commission convictions of Nazi saboteurs would recede into history. However, as Steve has noted, the oral argument in ...