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Breaking News: Russia, China agree to draft Security Council resoultion to impose new sanctions for Iran

The New York Times is reporting:
The Obama administration announced Tuesday morning that it has struck a deal with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose new sanctions on Iran, a sharp repudiation of the deal Tehran offered just a day before to ship its nuclear fuel out of the country.“We have reached agreement on a strong draft with …

Video: The Report on NATO’s Future by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General

Obama Administration defends the relevance of international law to detention authority

In case you missed this, in a brief submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, May 13, the Obama Administration made an important statement about the applicability of the laws of war to the on-going “war on terror.” In Al-Bihani v. Obama, the D.C. Circuit upheld the decision of the District Court denying Al-Bihani’s petition for a …

MUSIC VIDEO: 8 Goals for Africa . . . The Millennium Development Goals

8 Goals For Africa from 8 Goals For Africa on Vimeo.The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs.

From the Millennium Development Goals advocacy campaign by the UN in South Africa website:

End poverty by 2015 is the historic promise 189 world leaders …

Audio: Georgetown Professor Bruce Hoffman discussing Faisal Shahzad and what may be an emerging pattern of terrorism

Good interview. Most troubling is his conclusion that the U.S. government is not taking adequate steps to address the challenges posed by this “new form” of terrorism.

Video: Foreign Affairs Day– Who Knew?

State Department Foreign Affairs Day Celebration

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

May 7, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much.
Oh, my goodness, well, it is absolutely a privilege for me to join all of you today and I’m delighted to see so many of you here for Foreign Affairs Day. You are among the …

Shahzad and the Constitution: Why Professor Bainbridge is correct

My dear friend (for almost forty-years!), UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge has recently taken on many the unfortunate claims that the so-called Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad, should not be given his Constitutional rights.  Here is his most recent post, which I re-post in its entirety, lest it lose its full effect:

Why not just torture the SOB?
The WSJ editorial board …

Video: Amb. Michael A. Sheehan on the Times Sqaure Bomber

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The previous post reported and commented on Ambassador Mike Sheehan’s op-ed on the challenge of terrorism. Here is a recent video of an interview he did yesterday commenting on the Times Square Bomber in the wake of more recent information.


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Anthony Clark Arend is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Commentary and analysis at the intersection of international law and politics.