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May/June 2008
| Author: | Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch |
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From the May/June 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs: Shutting down Guantánamo will cause new problems. Rather than hold the terrorism suspects, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.
See more in Terrorism
Updated: January 24, 2008
Backgrounder
Despite losing an important court decision, the White House has continued to use military tribunals to try terrorist suspects and to fight the Supreme Court’s claim to jurisdiction over the matter.
See more in United States, International Law
November 7, 2007
| Speakers: | Jamie S. Gorelick, Member of the Continuity of Government Commission and Partner at Wilmerhale Fred C. Iklé, Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies Norman J. Ornstein, Senior Counselor of the Continuity of Government Commission and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute |
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| Presider: | Thomas E. Donilon, Partner, O'Melveny & Meyers LLP |
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A catastrophic event in the nation's capital--either natural or manmade--could raise numerous constitutional questions about the continuity of the federal government. If one or more branches suffered severe damage, the system of checks and balances established in the Constitution could make reconstituting government an extremely complicated matter, at best. Speakers discuss the potential problems of such an event and make recommendations for how to address them.
See more in National Security and Defense, Terrorism
October 10, 2007
| Author: | Richard Engel |
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Must Read
This article tells the story of Sultan Hashim, Saddam's final defense minister who worked for the CIA to overthrow the dictator, was convicted as a war criminal, and sentenced to death. His execution however, has come to a deadlock.
Updated: July 13, 2007
Online Debate
James Jay Carafano of the Heritage Foundation and Gabor Rona of Human Rights First debate the merits of shutting down the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
See more in International Law
March 30, 2007
Daily Analysis
The Bush administration claims victory after admissions of guilt by two high-profile Guantanamo inmates. But uncertainty lingers about the judicial process and damage to America’s image.
See more in United States
March 10, 2007
Essential Documents
Transcript
March 2007
Essential Documents
Report
See more in United States, Intelligence
February 15, 2007
| Author: | Joseph Lelyveld |
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Must Read
Joseph Lelyveld writes in the New York Review of Books on Iraq and the ‘War on Terror’, reviewing the constitutional issues raised by the first five years of the existence of the military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. He argues that indefinite detention remains a core issue in the debate on human rights in the United States.
See more in Human Rights
February 14, 2007
Essential Documents
Executive Order
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Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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