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Lawmakers want to give families of the 9/11 victims the power to sue Saudi government officials, but the Obama administration says that’s a terrible idea. Syrian peace talks are in jeopardy of falling ap...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Bank Markazi v. Peterson, a case we previewed last year when the Court first asked for the opinion of the Solicitor General during the certiorari pro...
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Editor's Note: There is a popular misconception that the serious study of Islam is a step on the road toward radicalization and terrorism. Christine Fair, Jacob Goldstein, and Ali Hamza (all of whom I'm...
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.
The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States has been deteriorating since 2000 due to serious and fundamental differences on Israe...
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Of Fighter Jets and Land Reclamation
Chinese Fighter Jet (Photo: The Maritime Executive)
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The recent announcement that China has deployed advanced surface to air missiles on Woody Island in the Paracels island chain is, of course, only latest in series of developments that have brought increa...
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Marty Lederman says in response to my posts that the big difference between the Bush and Obama preemption doctrines was that the Bush Administration “argued that international law permits the United Stat...
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Editor's Note: Despite its successful terrorist attacks in Europe, the Islamic State is being hit hard in Iraq. Indeed, Iraqi forces and their U.S. and coalition allies are gearing up to retake Mosul, Ir...
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This week on the podcast, we welcome Eric Schwartz, the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Schwartz previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of S...
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Last Friday, the new State Department Legal Adviser, Brian Egan, gave a speech on “International Law, Legal Diplomacy, and the Counter-ISIL Campaign” at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) a...
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Daniel Bethlehem says that my claim that the Obama administration has embraced the Bush doctrine of preemption for anticipatory self-defense “misses an essential element.” The essential element I misse...