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Under Cover of COVID at the UN: Why Counterterrorism Is Not the Answer to a Pandemic

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Supreme Court on Trump’s Finances: Glass Three Quarters Full for Rule of Law

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Colombian Peace Efforts on Life Support Amid the COVID-19 Response

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UN’s “Counter-Terrorism Week” Misses the Mark in Marginalizing Civil Society

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Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban

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Mexico’s Priorities as an Elected Member to the Security Council for 2021-2022

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Unpacking the National Intelligence Council’s Memo on Russian Bounty Operation

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Patriotism and Justice on an Unusual Independence Day

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The Baseline: How a Functional Executive Would Have Handled the Russian Bounty Operation

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The CIA’s Long and Winding Road to Diversity

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Welcoming E. Tendayi Achiume, Barbara McQuade, and Matiangai Sirleaf to Just Security’s Board of Editors

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Transitional Justice, Race, and the United States

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First They Came For Me and My Colleagues: The U.S. Attack on the Int’l Criminal Court

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I help children in armed conflict. The President is forcing me to stop.

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A Solution in Search of a Problem: The Dangerous Invalidity of Divesting Military Commanders of Disposition Authority for Military Criminal Offenses

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A Rejoinder to China’s Response to UN Human Rights Experts

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11 Top Antitrust Experts Alarmed by Whistleblower Complaint Against A.G. Barr—and Office of Professional Responsibility’s Opinion

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Trump’s Rationale for Attacking the ICC—Continuity with Bush and Obama’s War on Terrorism

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The Deeply Concerning, Misguided D.C. Circuit Mandamus Ruling in the Flynn Case

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The United Nations Charter at 75: Between Force and Self-Defense — Part Two

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The United Nations Charter at 75: Between Force and Self-Defense — Part One

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Specific Questions for Congress (and News Media) to Ask Attorney General Barr

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Just Security’s New Co-Editor-in-Chief

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The Supreme Court’s Ominous DACA Decision: Perils for Dreamers in What Comes Next

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Bolton Book Confirms Most Serious Allegations in Trump Impeachment on Ukraine Quid Pro Quo

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How Inter-State Procedures in Human Rights Treaties Can Support the Black Lives Matter Movement

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Statement of Homeland and National Security Leaders

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Dissecting the Executive Order on Int’l Criminal Court Sanctions: Scope, Effectiveness, and Tradeoffs

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The Strength of America’s Apolitical Military

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The Supreme Court’s Insidious Development of Qualified Immunity

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At Confederate-Named Army Bases, Highlight US Ideals By Renaming Them for Honorable Figures

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The Untold Power of Bill Barr to Direct US Military Forces in Case of “Civil Unrest”

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Standing, Not-Standing with the Protesters: U.S. Policy on Hong Kong and BLM

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The United States’ Racial Justice Problem Is Also an International Human Rights Law Problem

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If We Could See Ourselves from the Outside

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Invoking “Terrorism” Against Police Protestors

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The President and the Domestic Deployment of the Military: Answers to Five Key Questions

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A Bipartisan Push in Congress to Fight the ‘Parallel Pandemic’ of Human Rights Abuses Abroad

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White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O’Brien

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Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists

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Trump’s Empty “Withdrawal” from the World Health Organization

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Understanding the Michael Flynn Case: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff, and the Proper from the Improper

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Jurisdiction at Guantanamo: The Case of Long-Term Complicity

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Eli Lake’s Omissions and Misleading Facts in Defense of Michael Flynn

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Nuclear Arms Control, or a New Arms Race? Trump Seems Bent on the Latter.

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Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic: An Online Event Series

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Tents at Sea: How Greek Officials Use Rescue Equipment for Illegal Deportations

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A Conversation With U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye: COVID-19 and Freedom of Expression

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Oxford Statement on the International Law Protections Against Cyber Operations Targeting the Health Care Sector

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Turkey Opened the Door to the European Court of Human Rights for Syrian Victims

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The Significance of the Supreme Court’s Opati Decision for States and Companies Sued for Terrorism in U.S. Courts

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Anticipating Phase Two of the Trumped Up “Obamagate”

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The Trump Administration’s Indefensible Legal Defense of Its Asylum Ban

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Oversight and “Undermining”: Reflections on the Supreme Court Oral Arguments About Subpoenas for Trump’s Financial Information

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What the Pandemic Tells Us About the State of U.S. Cybersecurity

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The Importance of New Statements on Sovereignty in Cyberspace by Austria, the Czech Republic and United States

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Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic and U.S. Response

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The Republic of Facebook

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The Perils of Hyping Pandemic Response as a National Security Issue

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Trump’s COVID-19 Immigration Proclamation May Be Legal, But It’s Still an Abuse of Power

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Top Experts Analyze Inspector General Report Finding Problems in FBI Surveillance

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Why We Filed a FOIA Request on How Many US Troops Are in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

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Assessing Emergency Powers During #COVID-19

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What Counts As Sufficient Transparency on Civilian Casualties in Somalia

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There is No Public Health Rationale for a Categorical Ban on Asylum Seekers

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Seek and Speak the Truth

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WhatsApp v. NSO Group: State Immunity and Cyber Spying

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Pompeo’s “Rights Commission” Is Worse Than Feared: 7 Concerns to Watch

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Deepfakes 2.0: The New Era of “Truth Decay”

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Coronavirus Border Expulsions: CDC’s Assault on Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors

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The Time has Come to Have a Conversation at the U.N. on Self-Defence

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Lawsuit Against Fox News Over Coronavirus Coverage: Can It Succeed? Should It?

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Don’t Bother Suing China for Coronavirus

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COVID-19 Shows How the U.S. Got National Security Wrong

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Biopharma: The Next National Security Frontier

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A Chance to Fix FISA

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Former Officials Challenge Pompeo’s Threats to the International Criminal Court

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The Soleimani Strike and the Case for War Powers Reform

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The Defense Department’s Measured Take on International Law in Cyberspace

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Is the Pardon Power Unlimited?

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Norm-Skepticism in Cyberspace? Counter-Factual and Counterproductive

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The President’s War on Intelligence: Yes, It’s Worse Than You Think

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New Online Resource: War Powers and Presidential Practice

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For House, Senate National Security Committees, Stopgaps for Term Limits

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When Professionalism Mattered: Dissent Against U.S. Policy on Landmines

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The Soul of the Justice Department: Who Must Stand Up For It Now

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Punching on the Edges of the Grey Zone: Iranian Cyber Threats and State Cyber Responses

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The CIA in the Age of Trump

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Confronting Russia’s Role in Transnational White Supremacist Extremism

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Reading Between the Votes: 53 Senators Say Trump Guilty on the Facts

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Sudan’s Push for Removal from U.S. Terror List: Not a Panacea

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International Criminal Court and the Question of Palestine’s Statehood: Part II

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Compilation of States’ Reactions to U.S. and Iranian Uses of Force in Iraq in January 2020

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How to Think About the Soleimani Strike in Four Questions

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Iran’s Leaders Preserve the Republic With a Hybrid of International and Islamic Law

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The President, His Relationship with Intelligence, and the Soleimani Strike

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The Need for Increased Amicus Role in the FISA Process

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U.S. Legal Defense of the Soleimani Strike at the United Nations: A Critical Assessment

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Reevaluating Our Counter-Terrorism Information Sharing Methods

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Lawful Self-Defense vs. Revenge Strikes: Scrutinizing Iran and U.S. Uses of Force under International Law

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The Targeted Killing of General Soleimani: Its Lawfulness and Why It Matters

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Iran’s Unlawful Reprisal (and Ours)

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Soleimani Strike Marks a Novel Shift in Targeted Killing, Dangerous to the Global Order

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United States Killed Iraqi Military Official and Iraqi Military Personnel in the Two Recent Attacks

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

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The Crossfire Hurricane Report’s Inconvenient Findings

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New Leaked Documents Reveal China’s Chilling Crackdown on Muslims

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Duty to Warn: Has the Trump Administration Learned from the Khashoggi Failure?

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Can Turkey be Expelled from NATO? It’s Legally Possible, Whether or Not Politically Prudent

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Climate Change Denialism Poses a National Security Threat

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What’s the New Terror Financing Executive Order All About?

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Guidelines on Investigating Violations of International Humanitarian Law

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Expert Summaries of Mueller Report: A Collection

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

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

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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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Need for Change to Protect Children in Armed Conflict

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