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10 Oct John Yoo Gives Partial Endorsement for Awlaki Memo
...put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court. By my lights, I would rather the Obama folks be hypocrites in favor of protecting the national security than principled fools (which they are free to be in the faculty lounges both before and after their time in government). But the administration’s former worldview of terrorism still infects their decisions, to the country’s detriment. According to the reports, the Obama administration believes...
09 Mar Article 103 to the Rescue: A Few Thoughts on the Legality of Russian Claims Under the Genocide Convention, Jus Cogens Duties and Preventive Self-defense
...international law community stands witness to what is perhaps, the Grotian moment of our times. Debates on whether international law is dead or alive (or in a quantum state worthy of Schrödinger’s cat) in the aftermath of Russia and Belarus’ evident and utter disregard for the so-called rules-based order, while interesting, provide little insight into more pressing matters of how to stop and deal with the Russian aggression. A significant part of the battle for Ukraine is not being fought on the battlefield, but in the halls of The Hague,...27 Jan Gustavo Petro’s Response to Trump
...black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the...10 Nov Is There Really a War on Terrorism Outside of Afghanistan? You Betcha!
Critics of the U.S. war on terrorism often deride it as a bad metaphor or an excuse to conduct controversial detentions, interrogations and military trials. But what the Pentagon refers to as the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) has many of the characteristics of a typical armed conflict, even outside of the main battlefield in Afghanistan. As the NYT reports: The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and...
29 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: The Making of Future Wars – A Methodological Note
...these victims of Hitler’s empire “had an overly emotional outlook full of blind spots. Unable to think like occupiers, they produced texts, he argued, that would hamper their future ability to put down (anti-colonial) rebellions” (p. 38). It was the experience of war making that would according to the British delegate be conducive to making the future (colonial) battlefield. The wartime experience of victims was seen in this light as counterproductive. But stressing the importance of different war experiences for the project of shaping future wars, is a major contribution...
14 Jul The Business of Security: New Frontiers and Old Challenges in Private Military and Security Companies Regulation – Introduction to the Symposium
...the Global South’s Burden by Madhumita Jayashankar Who is Responsible? When Private Military Companies Aren’t Completely Private by Lindsay Freeman and Amanda Ghahremani Ukraine’s New Bill on PMSCs – A Possible Pandora’s Box for Operations Abroad? by Darío Bürky Arellano From Contract to Combat – Individual Criminal Liability of PMSC Personnel and Its Integration into Emerging Treaty Frameworks by Adrián Agenjo Profit, Power, and the Privatised Battlefield by Ara Marcén Naval Playing Regulatory Catch-up – PM(S)Cs and the New Draft Instrument by Sarah Katharina Stein The views expressed in this...
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Gabriella Citroni, Chiara Gabriele, Danaé van der Straten Ponthoz and Julie Bardèche
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