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Tag: War and National Security

A. Dirk Moses

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

Radhika Sainath

Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.

Oded Na’aman

In the aftermath of October 7.

Helena Cobban

Any peace will depend on a sober assessment of Hamas.

Stefanie Fox

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

Deborah Chasman, Noura Erakat

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Rajan Menon

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

Lerone A. Martin, Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Daniel Bessner

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.

Simona Foltyn

How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.

Stephen Milder

German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Chris Blattman

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not.

Sophia Goodfriend

Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.

Rajan Menon

As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.

Feisal G. Mohamed

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Edin Hajdarpašić
On war and belonging, thirty years after the siege of Sarajevo began.
Raja Shehadeh

Remembering the Nakba is not optional.

Marta Figlerowicz
Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. A new translation of Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.
Rajan Menon
Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
Emil Edenborg
A pervasive ideology of "traditional values" has taken hold in Russia, portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
Bethany Moreton
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
Eugene Rumer, Rajan Menon
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best reads for context on the current conflict, our book on the unwinding of the post–Cold War order is now available for all to read.
Ileana Nachescu
The war is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
Simon Waxman
Putin's war in Ukraine breaks the rules, but powerful states always do. Far from dying, a just global order remains to be built.
David Roediger
A history of imperial forgetting.
Baher Azmy

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Peter James Hudson
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.
Sophia Goodfriend

In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.

Christian G. Appy

Tactical critiques of the war's conduct are a distraction from U.S. imperialism.

Anthony Dworkin

Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

Madiha Tahir

Drone attacks were sold to the American people as a way to limit U.S. involvement in Pakistan. In reality, U.S. empire has only continued to exert influence.

Joseph Margulies

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

Faisal Devji

The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan sacrificed politics—the only viable route to peace—for massive corruption and violence.

Atiya Husain

From drone strikes to counterinsurgency efforts, the work of the late historian Nasser Hussain highlights the importance of understanding the mechanics of the War on Terror, not just its effects.

Daniel Akihiro Iwama

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

Erica X Eisen

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War.

Maryam Jamshidi
The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on.

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