Recent Articles
Will the EU’s Digital Services Act Reduce Online Extremism?
The EU's Digital Services Act does not sufficiently address challenges to countering online extremism.
Review of Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions
Reviewing Boyd van Dijk, Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). Boyd van Dijk has written a superb political and legal…
Early Edition: May 16, 2022
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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (May 7-13)
Russia-Ukraine • NATO Expansion • Autocratization and democratization: Global • U.S. Democracy • Civilian harm and Dept of Defense • Cybersecurity • Israel-Palestine
Russian Threats and Cybersecurity: Q&A with Beth George, former DOD acting General Counsel
A conversation with former acting General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
Sobre el nuevo protocolo sobre vigilancia transfronteriza en materia de cibercrimen, un llamado a la cautela
En vez de "un enfoque proporcionado ... da prioridad a la aplicación de la ley en detrimento de la privacidad, la protección de datos y los derechos humanos."
On New Cross-Border Cybercrime Policing Protocol, a Call for Caution
The treaty creates a range of new policing powers with weak privacy and human rights standards and fails to include sufficient oversight.
Defense Dept Law of War Manual and Its Unintended Readings: On Civilians Assuming Risk of Harm
The Manual risks creating a false impression that is not intended by the senior Defense Department leadership who produced the Manual — a problem that could significantly undervalue…
Early Edition: May 13, 2022
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An Offer NATO Cannot (and Should Not) Refuse: Finland’s Membership
Admittance would help ensure that the Alliance system of collective security ushered in after 1945 remains in place.
Surveying Evidence of How Trump’s Actions Activated Jan. 6 Rioters
A triangulation of evidence that extremists treated then-President Trump's words as instructions for the events on Jan. 6.
In Lebanon, Elections Bring Cautious Hope – and an Uphill Battle for Reforms
Weakened incumbents and diaspora voting could allow the country to change direction after years of graft, mismanagement, and democratic decline.