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The U.N. Needs Help Sustaining the Global Approach to Violent Extremism

Advocates have few forums to discuss implementation and sensitive issues such as government actions that contribute to radicalization.
Female Marine Corps Recruits

All Americans: Extending Draft Registration Makes Us Stronger

If the US finds itself in a crisis necessitating a mobilization of the American people, it must be able to call on the talents of the entire population, men and women alike.

COVID-19 Shows How the U.S. Got National Security Wrong

Today's pandemic has revealed that our national security priorities have been completely wrong. It is past time to rethink what national security should mean.

The Early Edition: April 7, 2020

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and…
Israeli police stop a vehicle at a checkpoint in Bnei Barak

Can Governments Track the Pandemic and Still Protect Privacy?

A team of Europeans is creating a different contact-tracing tool that they say is designed to limit the collection and exposure of personal data.
Committee ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) talks with committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

Congress Must Insert Oversight of Intel Community in COVID Emergency Legislation

Governments often curtail individual liberties when faced with national or global emergencies. Unsurprisingly, one result of the COVID-19 pandemic is that governments around the…
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Rube Goldberg and Military Justice

The decisional layer cake that Congress has put in place over the years, including on sexual assault, is rife with potential for yet more command influence.
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How Much Liberty Must We Give Up? A Constitutional Analysis of the Coronavirus Lockdown Proposals

The U.S. Constitution allows the federal government to impose quarantines and lockdowns for a pandemic like novel coronavirus, but here's how the due process clause also limits…

The Early Edition: April 6, 2020

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and…
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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (March 30-April 3)

Varying analyses of China's potential legal responsibilities for COVID-19 harms, civil liberties while fighting a pandemic and questioning whether individuals should be prosecuted…
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Cooler Heads Prevailed Within the Navy after Pensacola Shooting

In the three months since Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani shot and killed three U.S. Navy personnel and wounded eight others at the Naval Air Station (NAS) in Pensacola,…
Staff in masks wearing PPE prepare food aid rations to be henceforth delivered to refugee family homes rather than distributed at a UN a center, in Gaza City.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (Mar. 28 to Apr. 3)

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,…
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