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Middle East Ticker: Assad Regime Corners Rebels in Aleppo, U.S. Reauthorizes Iran Sanctions, and Islamic State Prepares Its Fallback Plan
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Did the Arab World Miss Its Chance to Democratize?
The Arab uprising in 2011 prompted months of excitement about the potential for governance reform and even democratization in the Arab world. But as the protests gave way to massacres, civil war, and ren... -
The White House Releases a "Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks" on American Uses of Military Force
Last year, Kenneth Anderson and I published a book entitled, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, which is a detailed analysis of the Obama Administration's na... -
The Viability of the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
It is increasingly common to hear the term “hybrid warfare” used to describe the complexities of the modern battlefield. When Russia uses a “combination of instruments, some military and some non-militar... -
Four Myths about the Kurds, Debunked
Editor’s Note: There is one bright spot in the darkness of the Middle East: the U.S. relationship with various Kurdish groups. In Iraq and Syria in particular, the Kurds seem the bulwark of U.S. efforts ... -
The Implications of the EU Delisting Bank Saderat Iran
In late October, the EU lifted sanctions on Bank Saderat Iran and its London subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC. -
Key Provisions in the Intelligence Authorization Act (FY'17)
On November 30th, the House passed H.R. 6393, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY'17. While it remains to be seen what if anything ultimately emerges at the end of the process, I'd like to highlig... -
Water Wars: Beijing Charts Post-Election Path Forward
Beijing continues to consolidate position in South China Sea -
Law and Conflict for the Contemporary Practitioner
PDF version A review of Kenneth Watkin's Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
Yemen: Ceasefires and Lost Opportunities
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Markaz. *** -
Middle East Ticker: Thousands Flee Assad Regime Advance in Aleppo, Turkey Defiant as Purge Continues, and the Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal Comes Closer to Reality
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Annals of the Trump Administration #7 (Prequel Edition): Shaping the War Obama Will Leave to Trump
With less than two months to go before it hands over power to the Trump administration, the Obama administration is continuing to fine-tune the legal, policy, and institutional architectures that guide i...