Anthony Clark Arend

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 …

UN Plaza: International Law and Order

Is Israel’s blockade of Gaza legal? (05:29)
What Lincoln’s blockade of the Confederacy tells us about Gaza (04:57)
The international political fallout at the UN (05:28)
Kevin: America is the ICC’s concern troll (06:16)
How to define the international crime of “aggression” (09:44)
Are CIA drone pilots legal combatants? …

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 …

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 …