Oxford University Press

March 3, 2023 | Orde Kittrie |

Book Chapter — Using Law as a Weapon Against Nonproliferation and Terrorism: The U.S. Government’s Financial Lawfare Against Iran

In December 2022, Oxford University Press published a chapter by Orde titled, “Using Law as a Weapon Against Nonproliferation and Terrorism: The U.S. Government’s Financial Lawfare Against Iran.” ...

April 18, 2022 | Dr. Erica Lonergan, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

What is the Future of Cyber Deterrence?

Excerpt Scholars and practitioners alike have debated the feasibility of applying deterrence models to cyberspace. Advocates of “cyber persistence theory,” for instance, posit that deterrence strategies...

June 17, 2021 | Orde Kittrie |

New ICC Prosecutor Provides Opportunity for Closing Investigations of U.S. and Israel

British lawyer Karim Khan was sworn in on Wednesday to replace Fatou Bensouda as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he will serve a nine-year term. One of Khan’s top challenges...

April 5, 2021 | Rush Doshi, Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, John Ferguson

China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing’s two voices in telecommunications

Executive Summary External Chinese government and commercial messaging on information technology (IT) speaks in one voice. Domestically, one hears a different, second voice. The former stresses free markets,...

September 29, 2020 | Orde Kittrie |

Netanyahu Highlights Hezbollah Use of Human Shields

In his speech to the UN General Assembly today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provided three detailed examples of Hezbollah’s use of Lebanese civilians as human shields, which is a war crime....

September 3, 2020 | Orde Kittrie |

U.S. Needs a New ICC Strategy

The State Department announced sanctions yesterday on two senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in an “unjust and illegitimate investigation” of alleged war crimes...

April 24, 2017 | Orde Kittrie |

Obama Administration Dropped Charges against Iranian Procurement Agents

A bombshell article published Monday in Politico describes how the Obama administra...

January 4, 2017 | Orde Kittrie |

What UNSCR 2334 Could Mean Beyond the United Nations, and How the Trump Administration Can Respond

Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...

May 6, 2016 | Orde Kittrie

Iran Still Owes $53 Billion in Unpaid U.S. Court Judgments to American Victims of Iranian Terrorism

FDD Research Memo

November 4, 2015 | Orde Kittrie

How the Federal Government Fails American Victims of Iranian and Palestinian Terrorism

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May 14, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer The Journal of International Security Affairs

How Saudi Arabia Has Survived—So Far

On December 17, 2010, the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazizi, who was protesting the confiscation of his wares and harassment by the country’s authorities, touched...

November 20, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Cause Célèbre Islam: Racism, Revolution, Black Nationalism

“We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”...

November 20, 2009 | CTR Vantage

The Darul Islam Movement in the United States

The 1960s were a time of great social upheaval in the U.S. Within the African-American Muslim population, young organizations trumpeted separation from mainstream American culture. Of these group...

April 25, 2009 |

Fixing Our Pakistan Problem

This article was published in The Journal of International Security Affairs (No. 16, Spring 2009)....

October 20, 2006 | The New York Sun

Pragmatism Trumps Suicide

Judge Richard A. Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, is one of America's most prolific intellectuals and legal philosophers. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, his power...