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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the...
Expanded Deterrence
Broadening the threat of retaliation
Legal Disservices Corp.
There are better ways to provide legal aid to the poor
Burgers, Fries, and Lawyers
Fast food as scapegoat for fat America
Friends and the Law
Can public policy support the institution of friendship?
The Doctor-Patient Breakdown
Trouble at the core of the medical economy
Why Ritalin Rules
Parents and teachers have lost patience with childhood
God and Man in Full
P.J. O'Rourke on A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700
The low-tax beginnings of American prosperity
FEMA After Katrina
Redefining responsiveness
Technology Converges; Non-State Actors Benefit
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will provide insurgents and terrorists with capabilities that, until very recently, were the preserve of large, powerful, wealthy states. The convergence of new technologies will provide them access to relatively cheap, long-range, autonomous weapons. To define the problem this presents to the United States, this paper will first explore the technologies—powerful small warheads, autonomous drones, task-specific artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing—that are providing increased range, numbers, and lethality for dramatically lower cost today.
The Persistence of North Korea
What has been keeping Pyongyang afloat?
The French Path to Jihad
Islamist inmates tell their stories
Freedom's Fall in Hong Kong
On July 1, 1997, the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong becomes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. China has signed an international treaty with Britain and issued a Basic Law, or miniconstitution, for Hong Kong; these promise that Hong Kong can remain autonomous for fifty years after 1997, save in matters of security and diplomacy, and ensure that Hong Kong people will continue to enjoy their rights and freedoms under Hong Kong law.
China has made a mockery of these promises and guarantees. China has dissolved Hong Kong's duly elected Legislative Council and replaced it with a handpicked assembly. China has set up a mechanism that will nominate a new chief justice who will do China's bidding. China has scrapped or modified a number of existing laws, thereby rolling back Hong Kong's current civil liberties. China has placed editorial consultants inside leading Hong Kong newspapers. China has announced restrictions on press freedom, freedom of assembly, freedom of political parties to solicit funds, and freedom of demonstration. China has indicated that English education will be downgraded. And, in a marked departure from Hong Kong's level economic playing field, China's state-owned firms have acquired Hong Kong assets at substantial discount to market. These below-market acquisitions presage a new era of graft, cronyism, connections, and bribery for Hong Kong under Chinese rule.
Europe in the Global Race for Technological Leadership
The European Union (EU) is a large and powerful economic area. With a gross domestic product of around 19 trillion dollars in 2018, the EU has a similar economic size as the United States of America.1 It is home to 512 million inhabitants and will remain more populous than the United States even after the possible departure of Great Britain in March 2019.2 Europe hosts numerous world market leading firms, especially in manufacturing, which export high-quality products everywhere. It is a highly competitive and advanced economy.
The Scapegoats Among Us
Blame-shifting after 9/11.
Necessary Impeachments, Necessary Acquittals
Damning facts, dubious laws, and the separation of powers
Law and Terror
This is a democracy. Congress must legislate.
War and Lack of Governance in Colombia: Narcos, Guerrillas, and U.S. Policy
This essay is based on academic and field research conducted by both authors between 1994 and 2001 in Colombia and the United States. For more references, see Buscaglia, “Law and Economics of Development” in The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Cheltenham: Eduard Elgar, 2000).
Colombia today is crippled by its most serious political, economic, social, and moral crisis in a century, a condition that seriously threatens both Latin America and the national interests of the United States in the region.
Secrets Of Statecraft: The Education Of General David Petraeus
General David Petraeus talks about what he learned about the Vietnam War from his PhD studies at Princeton that helped him in the war against terror.