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Featured Articles

The Tit-for-Tat Dynamics of 21st Century Extremism

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“Fiat Justitia”: Implications of a Canadian Military Justice Decision for International Justice

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Expert Summaries of Mueller Report: A Collection

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Act Now to Celebrate the U.N. Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020

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Effective U.S. Grand Strategy Includes Harnessing Diverse Educational Institutions

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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (August 5-16)

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Part III: The Muddy Middle: A New Framework for Use of Force

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Proportionality and 150 Iranian Lives: Do They “Count”?

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Part II: The Muddy Middle: Challenges of Applying Use of Force Policy Guidance in Practice

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The Muddy Middle: The Disappearing Lines in America’s Counterterrorism Wars and How to Restore Order

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Yes, Trump Could Be Indicted If He Leaves Office in 2021, But Is That Likely?

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U.S. Has Legal and Moral Responsibility to Protect Civilians at Rukban in Syria

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Army and Marine Corps Publish New Manual: The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Land Warfare

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Summer Slowdown at Just Security

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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (July 29-August 2)

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Trump’s Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI

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How Secrecy Undermines Mueller and the Defense of Democracy

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The International Security Echo-Chamber: Getting Civil Society Into the Room

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Revisiting General Counsel Ney’s Speech in Light of New Pentagon Leadership

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Questions Surround Secretive US-Guatemala Agreement

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Congress Tackles the “100-Mile” Border Zone for Federal Checkpoints

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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (July 22-26)

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How Congress Can Access the Legal Powers of Impeachment Without a Formal Inquiry

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EU Court of Justice Grapples with U.S. Surveillance in Schrems II

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Top Law and Intelligence Experts’ Views on Mueller Hearings

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Just Security’s Post-Mueller Report Coverage

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Mueller Hearing Risks Narrowing the Range of Impeachable Offenses

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After Publishing Strong Evidence of Trump’s Campaign Finance Crimes, DOJ Closes Case Without Explanation

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Criminal Prosecutions and Illegal Entry: A Deeper Dive

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What Did We Learn About Mark Esper and How He Views the World?

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Conceal Abuse of Migrant Detainees

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Blocking or Aiding Asylum Seekers? The U.S.-Canada “Safe Third Country” Agreement and Examples from Europe

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“Safe Third Country” Agreements with Mexico and Guatemala would be Unlawful

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Why the ICC’s Judgment in the al-Bashir Case Wasn’t So Surprising

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We Treat America’s Wartime Detainees Better Than Migrant Children

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Policing, U.S. Style: With Little Idea of What Really Works

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Trump’s “Unalienable Rights” Commission Likely to Promote Anti-Rights Agenda 

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Empathy Matters: Leadership in Cyber

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The Massive Perils of the Latest U.N. Resolution on Terrorism

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Self-Defense in International Law: What Level of Evidence?

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Unpacking the State Dept Acknowledgment that 2001 and 2002 AUMFs Don’t Authorize War Against Iran

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Trumping Transatlantic Relations, EU Struggles to Get Its House in Order

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Top Expert Backgrounder: Children in Immigration Detention — What are the International Norms?

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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (June 24-28)

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Anticipating the President’s Way Around the War Powers Resolution on Iran: Lessons of the 1980s Tanker Wars

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The Missing Piece in US-Iran Drone Dispute: Navigational Freedoms and the Strait of Hormuz

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Looking to 2020: A Presidential Pledge for Gender Parity in National Security Appointments

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Did Trump and His Team Successfully Obstruct Mueller’s Investigation?

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Top Expert Backgrounder: Aborted U.S. Strike, Cyber Operation Against Iran and International Law

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U.K. Court Nixes Saudi Arms Sales–What it Means for the US and Other EU Countries

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Top Experts’ Backgrounder: Military Action Against Iran and US Domestic Law

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Journalist Watchlist Raises Specter of Civil Rights-Era Secret Surveillance

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U.S. Cyber Command, Russia and Critical Infrastructure: What Norms and Laws Apply?

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Open Memo 2: The Impeachment Roadmap from 1974 to 2020

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Unfinished Business: What Mueller Didn’t Cover, But Congress Can

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Focusing on Armed Non-State Actors: Protecting Education in Armed Conflict

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EXCLUSIVE: Draft Charter of Pompeo’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights” Hides Anti-Human Rights Agenda

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A Side-by-Side Comparison of Barr’s vs. Mueller’s Statements about Special Counsel Report

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Cooking the WMD Books: Politicizing the 2019 State Department Compliance Report

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Time to Bring Women and Children Home from Iraq and Syria

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The Missing Bill Barr Obstruction Analysis

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Bolton’s Stated Predicate for War With Iran Doesn’t Work

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A Critique of Defense Dept General Counsel Ney’s Remarks on the Law of War

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Countering Russia’s Malign Influence Operations

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How Impeachment Proceedings Would Strengthen Congress’s Investigatory Powers

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The American Way of War Includes Fidelity to Law: Preemptive Pardons Break that Code

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Indictment of Assange for Espionage Directly Threatens Press Freedoms

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When Is a “Literally True” Statement False and a Crime

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Bill Barr’s Extreme Views on War Powers Mean Congress’s Window to Stop War with Iran is Now

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ICC Prosecutor Signals Important Strategy Shift in New Policy Document

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Why Robert Mueller Is Right that the Obstruction Statutes Apply to the President

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Why the Arms Trade Treaty Matters – and Why It Matters That the US Is Walking Away

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The Mazars USA Subpoena as an Existential Threat to President Trump

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The Failures of the Mueller Report’s Campaign Finance Analysis

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The Pentagon’s 2018 Civilian Casualties Report: What’s In It and What’s Next

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Amid the Nadler-Barr Standoff: Some History of Struggles Over Hearing Processes

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Guide to the Mueller Report’s Findings on “Collusion”

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Trump Administration’s New Cuba Policy Threatens Discord With U.S. Allies

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Gutting the Substance of a Security Council Resolution on Sexual Violence

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Climate Change: Our Greatest National Security Threat?

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Transparency on Civilian Harm in Somalia Matters – Not Just to Americans

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The Pentagon Wants to Streamline Security Clearances by Using AI. That’s a Dangerous Idea.

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An Insider’s View of the Life-Cycle of Self-Defense Reports by U.N. Member States

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The Hidden Issue in Huawei’s Suit Against the United States

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Body Counts Are Terrible Way for the Public to Assess US Counter-Terrorism Operations

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What Comes Next: After Supreme Court Reduced Obstacles to Suing International Organizations

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The US-Philippines Defense Treaty and the Pompeo Doctrine on South China Sea

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Citizenship-Stripping and ISIS Members: The Recent UK Experience

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I Helped Write the Exec Order on Public Reporting of Lethal Operations. Here’s What Trump Has Undone.

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BREAKING: United States Supports Germany’s International Arrest Warrant for Accused Syrian War Criminal

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The Seven Step Program for Fighting Disinformation

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Human Rights, Deprivation of Life and National Security: Q&A with Christof Heyns and Yuval Shany on General Comment 36

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Weapons of Mass Consumerism: Why China Wants Your Personal Information

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Executive Agreements: International Lawmaking Without Accountability?

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Annotation of the Pentagon Report to Congress on Detainee Abuse by U.S. Partners in Yemen

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Terrorists and the Southern Border: Myth and Reality

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Ruminations on RICO and Asset Forfeiture in the Trump Business Empire

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Trump’s Bookkeeper: How Prosecutors Could Easily Prove Tax Crimes for Hush Money Reimbursements

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10 Ways the U.S. Can Curb Interpol Abuses

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No Clean Hands: Reaction and Counter-Reaction in the Iranian-Saudi Proxy War in Yemen

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Need for Change to Protect Children in Armed Conflict

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Accountability Fatigue: A Human Rights Law Problem for Armed Forces?

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Annotation of Sec. Pompeo’s Certification of Yemen War: Civilian Casualties and Saudi-Led Coalition

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The Technicolor Zone of Cyberspace, Part 2

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