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This month marks the release of “Allies Against Atrocities: The Imperative For Transatlantic Cooperation To Prevent And Stop Mass Killings,” a report that I co-wrote with Lee Feinstein, dean of Indiana U...
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On the evening of Thursday, April 6th, please join us for the 2017 Triple Entente Beer Summit—the third iteration of what is now an Annual National Security State Affair.
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President Donald Trump has pledged to end the defense sequester and make the development of defensive and offensive cyber capabilities a White House priority, but the contours of U.S. cyber policy under ...
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This week, President Donald Trump saw his revised travel ban enjoined by federal district judges in Hawaii and Maryland, the latter of which the Justice Department has appealed.
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On Tuesday, March 21st, Lawfare and the Brookings Institution will host Representative Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, for an address on the role of C...
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[This is the last in a four-part series geared toward clarifying the legal and policy confusion still engulfing Trump’s sanctuary cities executive order.
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[This is Part III in a four-part series that addresses the confusion around sanctuary cities. See Part I and Part II.]
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This morning, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine wrote a thoughtful profile of Lawfare: “How a Wonky National-Security Blog Hit the Big Time.” The piece reflects some of the wild year we’ve had...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Tuesday, March 28, when Ben will interview Graeme Wood on his new book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounter...
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[This is Part II in a four-part series that sets out to clarify the continuing confusion around sanctuary cities. Start with Part I.]
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A month after President Trump issued his January 25, 2017 executive order, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” there remains a great deal of confusion: about what qualifies as...
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The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is looking into loosening Obama-era constraints intended to prevent civilian deaths from counterterrorism missions outside conventional war zones....
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Monday, March 13th at 2pm: James Kirchick will launch his new book, entitled The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age a...
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Editor’s Note: President Trump came into office seemingly determined to improve U.S.-Russia relations, with fighting the Islamic State high on the mutual agenda. Standing in the way of better cooperation...
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President Trump got us started this week by tweeting that former President Barack Obama had ordered a “tapp” of his phones during the presidential election. Benjamin Wittes asked ten questions that were ...
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The Hoover Institution is looking for its next National Security and Law Associate, the position currently occupied by Jane Chong. The work includes extensive writing and editing for Lawfare. The job ...
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Matthew Waxman reviews Deborah A. Rosen’s Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) and Benjamin Allen Coates’s Legalist Empire: International La...