Governance

Defense contracting is in the news again with the President of Afghanistan calling for replacing foreign advisors with Afghans and banning foreign security firms (UPI).This news comes on top of recent reminders of the precarious security situation in Afghanistan, two days ago Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post reported that 10 medical aid workers were murdered, they'd been travel

This evening, a Federal judge ruled that the California state constitution had violated the U.S.

Last night I heard an unusual argument - that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is bad for world order.

Last year the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with crimes against humanity and war crimes but did not charge him with genocide. Currently, ICC head prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is appealing this decision, and if successful, Bashir would become the first sitting head of state to be charged with genocide. This controversy comes at a time of heightened instability in Sudan with the April 2010 elections quickly approaching. 

Wednesday's House Armed Services Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee Hearing about the "Threat Posed by al Qa’ida in the Arabic Peninsula” sought to inform the public that the scope of al-Qa’ida’s threat extends beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan. While the hearing was informative in several ways, it would more aptly have been named “Threat Posed by al Qa-ida in the broader Muslim World and Why We Can or Cannot Kill Those ‘Psychopaths.’”