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An explosion caused by Russian airstrikes on the village of al-Bara in the southern part of Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on March 5, 2020.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (Feb. 29 to Mar. 6)

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,…
FBI Building in Miami, Florida.

About Those FBI Counterterrorism Assessments …

Will a recent inspector general report encourage the FBI to be more, not less, aggressive in the use of Type III assessments in counterterrorism cases without adequate constitutional…
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Russian Cyber Attacks Against Georgia, Public Attributions and Sovereignty in Cyberspace

"The attack on Georgia shows the opportunity costs of states not firmly grounding their reactions in the language of international law."

The Early Edition: March 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…
Children from the Anapra area stand on one side of the border wall while group of religious presbyters lead a prayer on the other side of the boarder wall between Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, US, on May 3, 2018.

Revised Justice Department Policy Still Silences Immigration Judges

Some of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration’s immigration policies are the former immigration judges who were once charged with enforcing them. But there’s a reason…

A Model for Countering Foreign Disinformation and Interference in Elections

There’s a model the U.S. government applied in the counterterrorism context that provides a potential template for addressing the election interference threat over the long run.
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Telegram’s Cryptocurrency Could Have a Terrorism Problem

A look at how the release of Telegram's cryptocurrency could offer terrorists and other bad actors new options to circumvent financial regulators and potentially undo years of…

Facebook Bylaws for Takedown Oversight Board: Questions of Independence

The board should select and decide cases without interference. But trustees and the company retain authority on issues underpinning its independence.

The Early Edition: March 5, 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…

The Gravity of Michael Ellis’ Promotion to Senior Director for Intelligence at the White House

The person just put in charge of intelligence at the NSC was credibly accused of abusing the classification system in the Ukraine matter, and was even personally named in the articles…
Relatives of missing people take part in a massive protest against violence, crime and the disappearance of people, in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico, on May 4, 2018.

Mexico’s Amnesty Proposal: An Instrument of Transitional Justice?

As violence in Mexico reaches record highs, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed an amnesty law aimed at benefiting individuals accused of involvement in the country’s…
U.S. Air Force Space Command Gen. John "Jay" Raymond stands next to the flag of the newly established U.S. Space Command, the sixth national armed service, in the Rose Garden at the White House August 29, 2019 in Washington, DC.

NATO Recognizes Space as an “Operational Domain”: One Small Step Toward a Rules-Based International Order in Outer Space

(Editor’s Note: The absence of a comprehensive analysis of the legal framework for military operations in outer space represents a troubling deficiency in the understanding of…
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