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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 …

Der Spiegel Online is reporting:

Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the far-left Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago.
Eleven days ago, the Israeli military stormed the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part …

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? …

Over at Georgetown’s Master of Science in Foreign Service site, recent MSFS grad Amina Khan interviewed Georgetown Professor and former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios. Khan writes:

On April 27, 2010 US Senator Richard Lugar stated at a press conference with the CSIS- “Facing a previous crisis in food security, the United States was at the forefront of the Green Revolution that …

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.