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Temple Mount Protests Wind Down, New Ceasefire in Libya Complicates Peace Effort, Hajj Gets Caught in Gulf Crisis, and Lebanon’s PM Makes Pitch in DC
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Your House Judiciary Committee Hard at Work with the People’s Business
The House Judiciary Committee has a unique role to play in times of great national crisis in the functioning of the presidency. As the congressional body with jurisdiction over the initial stages of the ... -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins for July 30
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins released the following statement on Sunday on the occasion of military commissions proceedings this week in the case of Abd al Rahim H... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 755 personnel at U.S. diplomatic missions across Russia to leave their posts in response to recent U.S. congressional sanctions against Russia for its interferenc... -
Wilson and the League of Nations
PDF version A review of Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment by Trygve Throntveit (University of Chicago Press, 2017). *** -
The Week That Will Be
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Appropriate Norms Of State Behavior In Cyberspace: Governance In China And Opportunities For US Businesses
PDF version Last week the Hoover Institution published my paper —entitled "Appropriate Norms Of State Behavior In Cyberspace: Governance In China And Opportunities For US Businesses"—as part of its Aegi... -
The D.C. Circuit’s Passive-Aggressive Approach to Military Commission Mandamus
This Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Rogers, Tatel and Griffith, JJ.) will hold a rare August argument session to hear the latest petition for a writ of mandamus from the... -
Senator Graham’s Proposed Return to the Independent Counsel Statute and the Problem of Impeachment Anxiety Syndrome
As Congress begins to respond more forcefully to Donald Trump’s excesses, a new proposal is taking shape: legislation to limit the president’s capacity to fire the special counsel. Lindsay Graham appears... -
The Court of Justice of the EU Delivers Judgments on Hamas and Tamil Tigers Sanctions
The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued judgments in two appeals concerning EU counterterrorism sanctions against Hamas and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers). -
Preventing a Nuclear 9/11: State-Based Strategies to Deter Non-State Threats
Editor’s Note: Non-proliferation has been an imperfect but real policy success in the modern era. However, the emergence of the North Korean program and continued problems with other nuclear weapons stat... -
Chinese Cyber Diplomacy in a New Era of Uncertainty
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