Anthony Clark Arend

When I began blogging in 2005, one of my first posts called for the ratification of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. Since 1994, there has been wide-spread support for the ratification of the Convention, including from Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It is thus no surprise that the recent National Security Strategy produced by …

Over at Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch opines on his candidates for this dubious honor. Not sure I would agree with all the choices, but it makes for interesting conversation! Lynch writes:
Following is a list of the 10 of the most ill-conceived, pointless, or just plain bad resolutions that have been adopted by the 15-nation security club. Some of these resolutions …

My friend and Georgetown colleague, Victor Cha, appeared on C-Span to discuss US foreign policy toward North Korea. Cha, an international recognized expert on Korea, was Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. He holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown, where he is also Director of Asian Studies.

Over at The Monkey Cage, my friend and colleague, Erik Voeten– who hails from The Netherlands– posts on the upcoming Eurovision competition:

Tomorrow the annual Eurovision song contest will be held in Oslo. To the uninitiated: each European country submits a song that is performed live on television. Countries then vote on which song was “the best.” The song contest is …

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In case you missed this . . .yesterday, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals reversed District Judge John Bates’s ruling on the right of detainees held at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion of the court in Fadi Maqaleh v. Robert Gates can be found …

Our friends at Yahoo! convened their annual Yahoo! Business and Human Rights Summit earlier this month at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California earlier this month. I was, unfortunately, unable to attend, but Georgetown’s Yahoo! Fellow, Evgeny Morozov, was an active participant.
What follows is a post by Christine Bader on the Yahoo! Business & Human Rights blog of her reflection …

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 …