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What Durham Is Investigating and Why It Poses a Danger to US Intelligence Analysis

A deep dive into Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation and the potential costs entailed.
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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (July 20-24)

Racial justice, coronavirus, women and national security, William Barr, Myanmar and Rohingya, Syria, Yemen, cyber, United Nations, more...
William Barr, nominee to be US Attorney General, takes the oath before testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 15, 2019.

Four Topics the Judiciary Committee Must Focus on in Barr Hearing

On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William Barr is expected to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee. If he follows through on his agreement to appear before Congress…
UN Security Council Meeting on Libya

Negotiating Racial Injustice: How International Criminal Law Helps Entrench Structural Inequality

The ICC ... exists through an international treaty that represents a negotiated settlement structured to protect the interests of economically powerful states. This political-juridical…
Secretary General Antonio Guterres virtually delivers his Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (July 17-24)

(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
People sit and work at large metal desks at U.S. Army Cyber Command headquarters

Cyberattack Attribution and International Law

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing two men linked to China’s Ministry of State Security of a decade-long campaign of hacking dissidents,…
Federal officers in full camo gear with gas masks and guns prepare to disperse the crowd of protestors outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon.

The President’s Private Army

How did we get here? Goitein discusses legal and political obstacles that faced President Trump's resort to other federal forces, why DHS is now his weapon of choice, what it may…

The Early Edition: July 24, 2020

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People watch the ICJ hearing at a restaurant in a Rohingya refugee camp on January 23, 2020 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Myanmar and the ICJ: Ways Forward

In August 2017, Myanmar’s military carried out a brutal campaign of murder, rape and other abuses against the country’s Rohingya Muslims. These so-called “clearance operations”…
Released Rohingya child prisoners wearing face masks stand in a line as they arrive in Sittwe jetty in Rakhine State after being transported by military boat on April 20, 2020.

What Myanmar Is and Is Not Doing to Protect Rohingyas from Genocide

In August 2017, the desperate plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims grabbed headlines when the military’s brutal campaign of murder, rape and other abuses forced more than 740,000…
Coronavirus with world map

Out of the Spotlight: COVID-19 and the Global South

Western media attention has remained largely fixed on the Global North, even though the pandemic has become a truly global phenomenon. ... Here, I highlight some of the challenges…

The Early Edition: July 23, 2020

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