Anthony Clark Arend

Georgetown University
and
The Center for a New American Security
(CNAS)
will live-stream a lecture by
His Excellency Anders Fogh Rasmussen
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General
with
The Honorable Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State and
Chair of the Group of Experts on the new NATO Strategic Concept
‘NATO – Delivering Real Security in an Age of Uncertainty’
Monday, February 22, 2010
1:00 p.m. – Gaston Hall
The Lecture will be …

An editorial in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times notes:
When most Americans hear that it’s illegal to supply “material support” to foreign terrorist groups, they probably assume that the prohibition involves financial or technical support — sending money to pay for hijackers’ air fares or providing wiring for a bomb (or advice about how to use it).
In fact, the law also seems …

Georgetown University has just announced that Michael Hayden has been brought on as a senior advisor to work on cybersecurity issues. Rob Mathis of Georgetown’s Office of Communication writes:
Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency has joined Georgetown University as a senior advisor to its new project that integrates law, policy and technology to tackle the issue …

Does this bother anyone? Jonathan Turley posts:
With Dick Cheney boasting on national television of his support for waterboarding and torture (here), the Obama White House is continuing its policy of ignoring the credible claims of war crimes to avoid the politically difficult decision to prosecute Bush, Cheney and others for the U.S. torture program. This was evident this week when …

Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) “We Are The World 25 For Haiti”, in which Jones and Richie serve as executive producers and producers, was created in collaboration with executive producers Wyclef Jean, Randy Phillips and Peter Tortorici; producers Humberto Gattica and RedOne; and …

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of accompanying about 7o MSFS students and other graduate students from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service on our annual career trip to New York City. Much of the trip was live-Tweeted here under the hashtag #msfsnyc. During the trip we had a series of panels on different types of careers in …

The New York Times reports:
U Tin Oo, deputy leader of the Burmese opposition party led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was freed from nearly seven years of prison and house arrest over the weekend and immediately declared that he would resume his pro-democracy activities.The release of Mr. Tin Oo, 82, came at the conclusion of his term of detention …

My great friend and Georgetown colleague, James Raymond Vreeland, provides an insightful answer to the question. Over at The Vreelander, he writes:
Why do dictatorships enter into human rights treaties?
I addressed this question a while back, picking up on a puzzle first identified by my friend and colleague Oona Hathaway.
Dictatorships that practice the most torture are more likely accede to the …