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Unwinding Sanctions
Most discussion of economic and financial sanctions focuses naturally on the imposition of them. As Peter Feaver and Eric Lorber point out in a new Foreign Affairs article, an equally important strategic... -
New McAfee/CSIS Report on Cybercrime
I participated today in a CSIS/McAfee roll-out of their latest report on the economic impact of cybercrime. Their bottom line is that cybercrime has an annual effect of roughly $455 billion globally, wi... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Let's start with developments around the world: The Taliban have claimed responsibility for this weekend's brazen assault on Pakistan's largest international airport that has resulted in the deaths of a... -
You Can Help Us Redesign Lawfare
We are thinking about a major redesign of the Lawfare web site, and we need reader help to get this going. As our content streams have increased and diversified, the blog form has become increasingly ina... -
Why Does the Omniscient Panopticon Tolerate Glenn Greenwald?
If you believe Glenn Greenwald's new book (which I reviewed here), the NSA's appetite for gobbling up communications is unlimited. Legal controls on its behavior are trivial. Its much-repeated claim that... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Bond Case, Statutory Interpretation, and the Executive Branch
The Supreme Court had the opportunity in Bond v. United States to tackle constitutional questions about the scope of the Treaty Power and the Necessary & Proper Clause, but the six-justice majority decli... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: It is Time to Fund Domestic Counter-Radicalization
Editor’s Note: Countering violent extremism (CVE) is as necessary for fighting terrorism as it is challenging. Both in concept and in practice, CVE programs are difficult to execute: radicalization remai... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #78: The Future of U.S. Surveillance Authorities
As I noted earlier, the Brookings Institution held a debate on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures. -
Paul on Audible on Cyber
I listen to a lot of books from audible.com, and especially enjoy the “Great Courses” series, which in my experience is, on a number of topics, very high quality. I just this morning noticed that our ow... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl dominated this week's news---both nationally and on Lawfare. In exchange for Bergdahl’s liberation, the United States freed five Taliban leaders detained at Guantanamo B... -
The CIA Joins Twitter
And it's first tweet is, well, pretty amusing: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. — CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
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