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Key Government Legal Offices Need Permanent Leadership
The Obama administration is confronting a range of foreign crises. Options for responding will continue to present difficult questions of both domestic and international law. And…
Verdict in Cambodia: Too Little Too Late, but Still Important
Amidst all the developments in the Middle East, we could not allow the verdict rendered by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Case 002 to go unacknowledged.…
State Department Releases Country Reports on Terrorism
Just Security readers will be interested to know that today, the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism released its Country Reports on Terrorism for 2013. This…
The State Department Human Rights Reports and National Security
Last Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Kerry presided over the release of the annual State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. This marks the 37th year that the…
A New Face in the U.S.-Pakistani Relationship
[Note from Ryan Goodman: It is an honor for us to publish an essay from Ambassador Cameron Munter, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan 2010-2012 and in several other distinguished…