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Crimes Against Humanity: Little Progress on Treaty as UN Legal Committee Concludes its Work
Despite a majority of States favoring a clear mandate and timeline to discuss the draft in the next year, a few countries essentially exercised vetoes.
Early Edition: December 7, 2021
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Putin’s Gamble on Ukraine
The US will face many such challenges from Russia and China in the future, so it must learn how to suppress threats like this one.
The Absence of “The Donald”
The curious omission of a notorious social media site in the FBI's criminal case files on January 6th.
Bringing Climate and Terrorism Together at the UN Security Council – Proceed with Caution
The open debate creates risks that counterterrorism will come to dominate the climate security and environmental peacebuilding fields.
Early Edition: December 6, 2021
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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Nov. 27-Dec. 3)
Coronavirus (Omicron) • Democracy Summit • Artificial Intelligence - Intelligence Community • Ransomware • Guantanamo (torture) • Nuclear nonproliferation • Israel…
As It Convenes a Global Democracy Summit, the United States Must Commit To Defending Democracy at Home
Heading into the Summit for Democracy, the United States has yet to pass comprehensive voting rights legislation at home.
The 2021 Just Security Holiday Reading List
Our end-of-year reading recommendations from the Just Security editors, including genre-bending international literature and memoirs that skillfully interweave the personal and…
Early Edition: December 3, 2021
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Preliminary but Necessary: The Question of the Applicability of the Notion of Apartheid to Occupied Territory
Does the prohibition of apartheid apply to occupied territory? Marco Longobardo analyzes how laws of war, human rights, occupation, and against racial discrimination intersect.…
Omicron: The Variant that Vaccine Apartheid Built
"If the current course is not corrected, vaccine apartheid will only deepen, and the resulting maldistribution will render historically subordinated groups even more disposable."