Recent Articles
Mueller Lacks Authority to Indict Trump
Whatever one’s views on the ultimate questions of whether a sitting president may constitutionally be indicted and for what offenses, they are as a practical (and legal) matter…
Information Operations are a Cybersecurity Problem: Toward a New Strategic Paradigm to Combat Disinformation
A call to shift efforts against disinformation into a cyber security paradigm, and to forge collaboration between independent academic researchers and tech companies.
The Early Edition: July 10, 2018
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 abroad.…
Turkey, NATO’s Odd Man Out?
Ambassador James F. Jeffrey writes that "a second controversy bubbles just under NATO's surface: the degree to which an organization that sees itself as a values-driven collective…
Squandered Opportunity?—Despite New Agreement, South Sudan’s Civil War Continues
Although the pact reached in late June to bring an end to South Sudan's civil war is certainty a positive development, it is by no means assured that the agreement will last.
The Early Edition: July 9, 2018
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 abroad.…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (June 30-July 6)
What a year last week was! Here's our analysis of topics including family separation, Yemen War, cyber attacks, civil suit against Trump Foundation, US airstrikes and civilian…
Lip Service Paid to Human Rights During UN Counterterrorism Week
Last week was counterterrorism week at United Nations headquarters in New York. Conference rooms and the General Assembly hall were abuzz as national intelligence and security…
Unpacking DOJ’s New Claim that DHS Can Legally Detain Migrant Children with Their Parents for Longer than Twenty Days
The Trump administration recently claimed it could not reunite migrant children with parents who are being held in ICE detention due to a court order requiring the government to…
Norms Watch: Damage to Democracy and Rule of Law in June 2018
We’re reviving Norms Watch, our series tracking President Donald Trump’s divergence from democratic norms, as well as the ways norms are sometimes discarded in reaction to…
What Makes the Lawsuit against Trump’s Foundation Very Different
Last week, the New York Supreme Court set an October date to hear motions in state attorney general Barbara Underwood’s civil suit against Donald Trump, his eldest children,…
The Early Edition: July 6, 2018
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 abroad.…