Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Oct. 6-10, 2025)

Russia-Ukraine War

• Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection (Updated)
  by Clara Apt

Series: When Guardrails Erode

• The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability
  by Dani Schulkin, Amy Markopolous and Maya Nir

Series: Spyware

• The Rome Statute in the Digital Age: Confronting Emerging Cyber Threats
  by Lindsay Freeman

U.S. Military

• Trump’s Outline of a Domestic War
  by Janine Davidson, Ph.D.
• The Crisis in Uniform: The Danger of Presidential Immunity for the U.S. Military
  by Steven J. Lepper and Eugene R. Fidell
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s War with the Rules of Engagement
  by Daniel Maurer

Violent Extremism

• Swatting Attacks and Nihilistic Violent Extremism: A Primer
  by Mackenzie Harms
• A New Approach in the Fight Against Transnational Violent Extremism is Needed
  by Thomas E. Brzozowski

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)

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

U.S. Foreign Policy

• U.S. Sanctions Removal on Mining Magnate Would Set Back Peace and Investment in DR Congo
  by John Prendergast and Sasha Lezhnev
• Some Questions About Trump’s Order Pledging to Defend Qatar’s Security
  by Michael Mattler
• A Closer Look at Trump’s Peace Deals: From “Death and Hatred” to “Love and Success”?
  by David J. Simon and Kathryn Hemmer

Emerging Technologies

• Russian Motivations Behind the “Hanoi Convention” Against Cybercrime
  by Alexander Seger

Climate Change / International Law

• Attacks on Nature, Atrocities Against People: The Case for Environmental Harm as a 12th Crime Against Humanity
  by Leila Nadya Sadat

Georgian Democracy

• After Another Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist
  by Laura Thornton

Podcast

• The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part II — What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In
  Rachel Goldbrenner and Tess Bridgeman interview with Brian Finucane and Rebecca Ingber