Anthony Clark Arend

Last Friday, February 4, the Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security at Georgetown University co-sponsored a panel with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies on International Law and the Threat of Force. The panel was part of the Program on Nonproliferation Policy and Law which is sponsored by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
It was my pleasure to …

Bisnow reports:

NetWitness Expands in Fairfax

Amit Yoran and NetWitness, one of the area’s thought leaders in cyber security, with a platform that monitors everything that happens on your network in real time (both good and bad), announced just this morning it will take a new HQ in Fairfax County, bringing an additional 50 jobs to the area. The …

ABC News reports:
President Obama may formally object to a provision that would prohibit the use of any funds to transfer detainees from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to the United States for any purpose.
The provision — attached to the Defense Authorization bill — would be a critical blow to the president’s stated goal of trying some …

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Dean Carol Lancaster and I discuss the foreign policy challenges for the United States in 2011 on the Voice of America program, Encounter. Listen here MP|3 or Windows Media

This Week on Encounter: Foreign Policy 2011

US & Russia Presidents (Credit: AP)

Now that the New Start Treaty has been ratified, what will be the foreign …

My dear friend and colleague, Professor Catherine Lotrionte, is featured on the Georgetown University website, where she discusses the cybersecurity project that she directs:
Catherine Lotrionte (G’99, G’08) is associate director of Georgetown’s Institute for Law, Science and Global Security and a longtime expert in cybersecurity. In partnership with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and private industry, she …

The AFP reports:
US lawmakers have effectively blocked President Barack Obama’s efforts to close the controversial terror prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by approving a Pentagon budge that forbids spending money on the move.After months of wrangling, both the House and Senate Wednesday approved a 725.9-billion-dollar defense spending plan for the fiscal year that began October …

Dafna Linzer over at ProPublica is reporting this evening:
The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, according to several administration officials.
The draft order, a version of which was first considered nearly 18 months ago, is expected to be …

Check out the new blog by Daniel Serwer, Peacefare.net. Dan has been teaching with us at MSFS at Georgetown this past semester. From the website:
This blog is dedicated to building peace worldwide.  It focuses on the concepts, analysis, policies, institutions, people, experience, lessons learned and tools needed to prevent and resolve violent international conflict.  It is open …