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Tracker: Litigation and Legislation on the “Insurrection Bar” to Office – Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment

A comprehensive database of efforts to bar from public office individuals who engaged in the January 6th insurrection.

Early Edition: May 1, 2023

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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Apr. 22-28)

Symposium: Values in Foreign Policy (racial justice) • Great Power competition - China • Asylum policy • Guantanamo • United States-Philippines • Marine biodiversity…

How Democratic Govts Become Complicit in Transnational Repression: Another Rwanda-US Case

In this one, the US government may have fallen prey to disinformation planted by an autocratic regime, and the pattern isn't rare.
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On Eve of Marcos Visit, US Must Center Human Rights in US-Philippines Security Relationship

"The United States should know that it cannot successfully pursue its security interests in the Asia-Pacific region at the expense of the basic rights of its partners’ citizens."

Early Edition: April 28, 2023

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The EU Joins Washington’s Campaign to Contain China

Europe is playing with fire by adopting Washington’s bellicose containment strategy. It should prioritize cooperation instead.

Early Edition: April 27, 2023

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The U.N. General Assembly’s Veto Initiative Turns One. Is it Working?

Resolution 76/262 has prompted more robust General Assembly engagement in one of the three occasions in which it has thus far been used.  
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New High Seas Treaty Prepares International Community for Sustainable and Equitable “Blue Economy”

Following the international community’s 1982 adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), often referenced as the “constitution of the ocean,”…

Early Edition: April 26, 2023

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The Role of Culture in Torture and its Absence in Guantanamo’s Medical Care System

Culturally competent medical care, including to the extent possible care provided by independent medical experts of the detainees’ nationalities, is needed at Guantanamo now.
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