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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Feb. 12-18)
Russia/Ukraine • Series: Executive Order 9066 • Canadian "convoy" protests • Afghanistan • Civilian casualties • Asylum• Native American sovereignty • Sudan • India…

80 Years Later, Preventing Another Executive Order 9066 Requires Recognizing Its Lessons
Japanese American incarceration and subsequent redress campaign offer timely lessons for U.S. public and policymakers.

Books Bans and Censored Curricula Won’t Change History – or the Racism We Still Live With
A powerful family story of incarceration under Executive Order 9066 shows how the past is very much present.

Combating Anti-Asian Violence through UN Human Rights Mechanisms
The prospect of complaints against States parties should spur more effective responses to anti-Asian attacks and other structural racial discrimination.

80 Years After Executive Order 9066, the Supreme Court Still Shuts Its Eyes to Reality
The myth of facial neutrality ignores how racism and other prejudices shape national security policy.

Introduction to Just Security’s Series on Executive Order 9066, 80 Years After Signing
A collection of Just Security essays reflect on national security policy past and present, 80 years after Order that led to mass incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Early Edition: February 18, 2022
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What I Told Congress about U.S. Lethal Strikes
Congress should take steps to end America’s war-based approach to counterterrorism policy.

Deploring the Violence, Abandoning the Victim
A forthcoming rulemaking provides the opportunity for the US to realign its asylum procedures with a simple international - as well as moral - obligation: to save human lives.…

Early Edition: February 17, 2022
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2022 Update: Good Governance Paper No. 20: Repairing and Strengthening Norms of Nuclear Restraint
At one-year mark of Biden administration, top experts revisit proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government.

The Regional Danger of Serbia’s Government Disinformation Machine
Recent US sanctions target a TV station in Bosnia used for divisive propaganda. But the most significant vehicle is in neighboring Serbia.