Recent Articles
Assad: Willing to risk direct confrontation with U.S. over moderate rebels—and stronger opposition to US airstrikes
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Foreign Affairs’ Jonathan Tepperman provides several important nuggets for international lawyers and policymakers to analyze.…
Boehner Invites Bibi: A Closer Look at Historical Practice
As many have noted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress is intriguing because of the process by which it was arranged: House Speaker John…
OHCHR Call for Comments on Encryption and Anonymity Online
David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on protection and promotion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, has issued a call for submission of information related to…
News Roundup and Notes: January 27, 2015
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Kurdish forces…
General Dempsey’s Position on an AUMF for ISIL: The Good, the Bad, and the Confusing
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey gave his views of what a congressional authorization for the use of force against ISIL should contain, in an…
National Security Related Congressional Hearings, January 26-30
Below is a calendar of Congressional hearings on national security matters for this week. Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:30am – Senate Armed Services – Global Challenges and…
What it Really Means to “Close Guantánamo”
[Editors’ Note: This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous…
News Roundup and Notes: January 26, 2015
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA “All options…
Inexplicable(?) New York Times Op-Ed on Inspire Magazine and the First Amendment
In today’s New York Times, a lawyer named Martin London has published an Op-Ed full of alarm, with dire warnings about “First Amendment fundamentalists” who…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (Jan 17-23)
I. Authorization for Use of Military Force Andy Wright, AUMF Proposals and Congressionally Mandated Reporting Requirements: Some Guideposts (Friday, Jan. 23) II. Torture Jameel…
AUMF Proposals and Congressionally Mandated Reporting Requirements: Some Guideposts
In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Obama called on Congress to authorize force against the Islamic State. This was consistent with the line he has been walking…
The Gov’t of Sri Lanka Responds to my NYT Op-Ed on U.S. War Crimes Probe of ex-Defense Secretary
The government of Sri Lanka’s Justice Deputy Minister has responded to an Op-Ed that I published in the New York Times in which I described the reasons that the United States…