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The Center of the Jihadist Universe
PDF version A review of Charles Lister's The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency (Oxford, 2015). *** -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Rishabh Bhandari published FBI Director James Comey’s public statement after Comey had announced that the Bureau would not recommend charges be filed against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private emai... -
Eric Talbot Jensen on Presidential Pronouncements of Customary International Law
BYU law professor Eric Talbot Jensen has a new article posted to SSRN (appearing in Brigham Young University Law Review) titled, "Presidential Pronouncements of Customary International Law as an Alternat... -
James Comey Testifies In Front of House Oversight and Governance Reform Committee
FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the House Oversight and Governance Reform Committee for nearly five hours today. Under scathing and often incredulous questioning by House Republicans, Come... -
Text of Russia-China Joint Declaration on Promotion and Principles of International Law
Last week I noted that the foreign ministries of Russia and China announced plans to issue a joint statement on the "promotion of international law" during the June 25, 2016 visit of President Vladimir P... -
Go Big, Go Global: Subject the NSA’s Overseas Programs to Judicial Review
PDF version The next round of surveillance reform is a time for the United States to go big – and to go global. We should get out of our defensive crouch and show the world how to balance robust intell... -
The Week That Will Be
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In Defense of a Unified Syria
Syria’s five-year-long, communally charged conflict has led many to call for the country to be partitioned – perhaps even into four or five smaller states. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Elizabeth McElvein analyzed both Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump’s reaction to the Orlando massacre through the lens of the politics surrounding immigration. -
The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme
Americans (myself included) have tended not to be attentive to the Great War. Our attention is focused instead on World War II, and we think of the Great War as "World War I" - and regard the "First" me... -
Hacking Back Without Cracking Up
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Culture War or Common Heritage? On Recent Critics of Global Religious Freedom
PDF version A review of Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, 2015) and Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Repo...
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