Armed Conflict

Just Security’s expert authors provide analysis on the legal, policy, and strategic dimensions of armed conflict, including the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas war, counterterrorism operations, conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, and other armed conflicts across the globe, with a focus on international humanitarian law, war crimes and accountability, mitigating and remedying civilian harm, and the humanitarian impacts of warfare.

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Sanctions No More: Slouching Toward Normalization with Sudan?

October and November saw major shifts in U.S. foreign policy towards Sudan, despite the Sudanese government’s abysmal human rights record and the International Criminal Court’s…

The Secret Ruling That Broke the Guantanamo Military Commissions

Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole, the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of…
Erik Prince, chairman of the Prince Group, LLC and Blackwater USA, is sworn in during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill October 2, 2007 in Washington DC.

When Erik Prince Called US Intelligence Assessment of Russian Election Hack “too cute and very, very thin”

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, testifies on Thursday afternoon before the House Intelligence Committee in the Russia investigation. The committee will later release a…

Corporate Criminal Accountability for International Crimes

Above: Flickr/The International Criminal Court Ed. note. This post  is the latest in our series on the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case Jesner. v. Arab Bank, a case with implications…
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Episode 47 of the National Security Law Podcast: Donuts and Depth Charges

And…we’re back! Fresh off of Thanksgiving, Professor Chesney and I are (all too) fired up to discuss the latest national security law news (not to mention a bunch of stuff…

International Law is Meant to Prevent What’s Happening in Yemen–On Humanitarian Relief Operations and Starvation

Every day brings worse news from Yemen. This morning, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that water and sewage systems in three cities in Yemen – Hodeidah,…

Congress Steps Up Accountability for Drones Strikes and Other Military Operations

On the same day that The New York Times Magazine published a disturbing account of the monumental gap between the number of acknowledged civilian casualties and the number of casualties…

Episode 46 of the National Security Law Podcast: The $15 Million Dollar Man

In this week’s episode, your devoted hosts dig into a bonanza of national security law odds-and-ends. First up is an en banc decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

The Internationalists Mini-Forum: Wars of Self-Defense, An Exception that Swallows the Rule

(This piece is the latest of several on Just Security examining The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, written by Just Security editorial board…
A truck with a large gun and three people in camouflage uniforms passes stores in Mareb, Yemen.

Yemen Strike Raises Questions About Whether the US Follows Its Own Drone Rules

While we were visiting Yemen this month, the United States conducted a drone strike against alleged al-Qaeda members in Mareb Governorate, reportedly killing two suspects while…
Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King signing the Multilateral Treaty for the Renunciation of War

The Internationalists Mini-Forum: Why Has War Declined?

(This piece is the first of several on Just Security examining The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, written by Just Security editorial…

How the Trump Administration Deals With Detainees Can Provide Insight Into its Counterterrorism Priorities

What is the US going to do with the “enemy combatants” it picks up during counterterrorism operations?  How will we strike the difficult balance between protecting national…
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