Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (May 4-8, 2026)

U.S.-Israel-Iran War

• What A War Game Already Told Us About Iran
  by Jason Abbott
• What the Iran War Reveals About the War Powers Resolution and How Congress Can Act
  by Tess Bridgeman and Brian Finucane
• Taking a Toll: How Allowing Iran to Charge for Transit in the Strait of Hormuz Could Undermine U.S. Strategy in the Pacific and Beyond
  by Daphné Richemond-Barak and Jacob Stoil

Russia-Ukraine War

• The International Compensation Mechanism for Ukraine: Update on the Convention Establishing an International Claims Commission and the Register of Damage for Ukraine
  by Patrick W. Pearsall

U.S. Military

• Hegseth’s Intellectual Purge is an Insult to His Officer Corps
  by Ryan Burke

U.S. Boat Strikes

• The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part V
  Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner interview with Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane
• Timeline of Boat Strikes and Related Actions (Updated)
  by Jeremy Chin, Margaret Lin, Aidan Arasasingham and Marie Miller

Series: Syria in Transition

• Taking a Closer Look at Syria’s Economy: Accountability or Business as Usual for Assad’s Cronies?
  by Noor Hamadeh

Series: When Guardrails Erode

• Will Congress Throw Out a Tool to Fight Money Laundering and Corruption?
  by Dani Schulkin, Jodi Vittori and Matthew Stephenson

Violent Extremism

• The U.S. Shouldn’t Lose Sight of the Real Terrorist Threats
  by Michael Jacobson
• Can Socially Cohesive Neighborhoods Protect Democracy from Political Violence?
  by James Piazza

AI Governance

• From Diagnosis to Deterrence: The Emerging U.S. Response to Adversarial Distillation
  by Joe Khawam
• Too Dangerous to Deploy: Anthropic’s Mythos and What Comes Next
  by Teddy Nemeroff

Hungary

• Hungary’s Election Is Already Paying Dividends for the EU and Ukraine. Is the U.S. Next?
  by Igor Khrestin and Andrew Chakhoyan

International Human Rights

• How the Law of War Can Reckon with Longer-Term Harms of Attacks on Health
  by Ana Elisa Barbar, Léa Gauthier, Evan Harary and Uliana Poltavets
• International Crimes and Human Rights Violations Against Muslims in BJP-Ruled Indian States Require Urgent Action
  by Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp
• Moving Beyond Recognition Toward Repair for Enslavement
  by Matiangai Sirleaf

Trump Executive Actions

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