Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (June 2-6, 2025)

Russia-Ukraine War

• Can Trump Seize a Win in Ukraine?
  by Ambassador Daniel Fried

Azerbaijan / Armenia

• Threats Lurk Behind the Scenes in Azerbaijan’s Talk of Peace With Armenia
  by John Prendergast

Wartime Authorities / Immigration

• What are “Wartime Authorities” and When Can the President Use Them? An Expert Q&A
  by Tess Bridgeman, Rebecca Ingber and Scott Roehm

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)

• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
  by Just Security

Trump Executive Actions / Series: What Just Happened

• What Just Happened: The Tariff Litigation Advances
  by Kathleen Claussen

Trump Executive Actions / Analysis & Perspectives

• Too Big to Be Lawful: A Federal Court Halts Mass Layoffs Across the Civil Service
  by Suzanne Summerlin
• Unequal Before the Law: How Trump’s Death Penalty Order Codifies Dangerous Speech
  by Cathy Buerger

U.S. Foreign Policy

• Why the Trump Administration Should Engage on Burma Now – and How
  by Michael Schiffer and Hailey Becker
• A Framework for Proactively — and Rapidly — Lifting Sanctions on Syria
  by Alistair Millar and Stephen J. Fallon
• How the Proposed State Department Reorganization Guts U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy
  by Scott Busby and Charles O. (Cob) Blaha

Democracy

• Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism
  by Maria J. Stephan

U.S. Military

• If McDonald’s Can Fix Its Own Machines, Why Can’t the U.S. Military?
  by Eryn Scheyder

Artificial Intelligence

• What Comes Next After Trump’s AI Deals in the Gulf
  by Alasdair Phillips-Robins and Sam Winter-Levy

Podcast

• The Just Security Podcast: Dismissal of Voting Rights Lawsuits
  Dani Schulkin interview with Chiraag Bains