Be Concerned but not Informed: Radical Islamic Terrorism and Mainstream Media...
The website e-IR asked me to review how mainstream media have represented radical Islamist media in the past decade, and what this means for the spread of radical discourses more broadly. Here is my...
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A View to Kill: Should states engage in assassination?
I have a lengthy piece on targeted killing/assassination up at the Canadian International Council’s Open Canada blog. It touches on some of the issues I’ve raised in previous posts here and here. The...
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“Truth to Power”: Louise Arbour on Human Rights and International Justice
CBC – CP file photo The Canadian International Council recently organized an interesting public event with Louise Arbour on her role in speaking “truth to power.” The talk is available on line at Open...
View ArticleNewly Disclosed Memo Proves Ben Shapiro’s a Partisan Hack
The assassination of Osama bin Laden by US special forces certainly has created a political problem for the Republican party. They spent years demagoguing the war on terror, but now the symbol of that...
View ArticleLiberalism all the way down? …. six hours on a plane with Judith Butler’s...
On a plane ride a couple of days ago, I picked up Judith Butler’s Frames of War, perhaps a couple of years after I should have. Though there is a lot of the book that I disagreed with, reading it was a...
View ArticleMagical Thinking in the Sahel
This time last week, international intervention plans in Mali consisted of a rather under-powered African (ECOWAS) force, which was expected to arrive no earlier than September. This force was not...
View ArticleWhat We’re All Missing in the “Zero Dark Thirty” Debate
This is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and religious...
View ArticleObama, Drones, and the Matter of Definitions
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tobias T. Gibson, an associate professor of political science and security studies at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. In the buildup to President Obama’s...
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Guantanamo in the Rearview Mirror
Here at the Duck and elsewhere, there has been much discussion of the gaps between academia and the policy world. I took part in a program that seeks to bridge that gap–the Council on Foreign...
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The “drug war” is over?
Over the years, the so-called global “war on terror” (or “war on terrorism”) has had its ups and downs as a foreign policy framing device. The George W. Bush administration, of course, relied upon the...
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Cause and Effect in the "War on Terror?"
It is impossible to know at this point whether there is any connection between these two disturbing events reported yesterday: NATO forces’ mistaken killing of nine boys gathering firewood in...
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Cause and Effect in the “War on Terror?”
It is impossible to know at this point whether there is any connection between these two disturbing events reported yesterday: NATO forces’ mistaken killing of nine boys gathering firewood in...
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Osama Dead: Are We There Yet?
My reaction to the news was essentially that of a five year old after a long car ride — can we be done now? I am very tired of the war on terror, on multiple levels. First, the obvious irritations. The...
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The 2003 Iraq War will not be forgotten
The killing of Osama bin Laden allows political leaders to further disentangle Iraq, Afghanistan and the whole war on terror concept; to wind down some operations and refocus others; to bring some...
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The bin Laden Killing and Assassination Explained in 4 Paragraphs Not By Me
At the risk of beating a dead terrorist horse, I want to cite W. Hays Parks (former Special Advisor to the Office of Legal Counsel on Law of War Issues at DoD, JAG and possible stand in for Clint...
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Making me Mlad: Why you can’t compare the Mladic and Osama bin Laden raids
Charli has been writing about international justice, arguing against ‘myths’ – and comparing the efforts to bring Mladic to justice as opposed to the rush to shoot Osama bin Laden in the face. Others,...
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Making me Mlad: Why you can't compare the Mladic and Osama bin Laden raids
Charli has been writing about international justice, arguing against ‘myths’ – and comparing the efforts to bring Mladic to justice as opposed to the rush to shoot Osama bin Laden in the face. Others,...
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Be Concerned but not Informed: Radical Islamic Terrorism and Mainstream Media...
The website e-IR asked me to review how mainstream media have represented radical Islamist media in the past decade, and what this means for the spread of radical discourses more broadly. Here is my...
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A View to Kill: Should states engage in assassination?
I have a lengthy piece on targeted killing/assassination up at the Canadian International Council’s Open Canada blog. It touches on some of the issues I’ve raised in previous posts here and here. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Truth to Power”: Louise Arbour on Human Rights and International Justice
CBC – CP file photo The Canadian International Council recently organized an interesting public event with Louise Arbour on her role in speaking “truth to power.” The talk is available on line at Open...
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