Anthony Clark Arend

Since 1988, I have been running a week-long program for high school students interested in international relations under the auspices of Georgetown’s School for Continuing Studies. This afternoon about 229 high school students will check into the dorms to begin an intensive exploration of international relations. Working as the Student Coordinator for the Program is Ena Dekanic, a Georgetown student …

The New York Times is reporting:
For their latest raid on the Belgrade home of Gen. Ratko Mladic, the police had studied architectural plans and brought a new device provided by a foreign government: a camera capable of looking through wood, bricks, even reinforced concrete.
his time, investigators found a false wall, missed by earlier searches, hiding a cache so rich that …

Last November, I posted on a decision by District Judge Gladys Kessler ordering the release of detainee Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed. One might have thought that this would have resolved his status. Hardly. Check out this fascinating post from Lyle Denniston over at SCOTUSblog on the battle between Judge Kessler and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on the disposition …

A previous post embedded a video from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which Stewart opines on the temptations of power. Above is a video from Coldplay for the song “Viva la Vida.” In the lyrics, they too reflect on the dilemma of power. What would Lord Acton say?
Viva La Vida
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when …

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While I do believe that the Obama Administration has actually taken a  different approach to presidential authority than the Bush Administration, Jon Stewart has a point.

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In case you missed it, Professor Dawn Johnsen had an op ed in Friday’s Washington Post commenting on her failed nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Johnsen writes:
In 2004, the leak of a controversial memo on the use of torture catapulted the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel into the spotlight. Fallout and debate …

Sixteen retired federal judges issued a report today under the sponsorship of Human Rights First and The Constitution Project. The report, titled Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases, presents the argument against a new indefinite detention law. From the Executive Summary:
Habeas is working. The judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have …

This past weekend, Georgetown University unveiled an amazing treasure trove of history– the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives. Over his forty-year career as Dean and Dean Emeritus of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Peter hosted three exceptional television programs on foreign affairs– and has an Emmy Award to prove it. Recently, Lauinger Library digitalized these programs, and …