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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Tunisia Won’t Derail From Democracy
A recent terrorist attack, doesn't signal the country's slide into violence and repression. Still, Washington needs to ensure the country's future.
Larry Diamond On The John Batchelor Show (19:21)
Hoover fellow Larry Diamond discusses the government and leadership in Tunisia. Diamond notes that Tunisia has made a successful transition to democracy after the Arab Spring, and he does not believe that a recent terrorist attack signals the country's slide into violence and repression.
ISIS And Sexual Slavery
Slavery was abolished in most countries by the end of the nineteenth century, although it is still practiced in some countries, illegally.
A Perry Mason Moment In The Nemtsov Murder
According to leaks form the Nemtsov murder investigation, the Chechen killers were given a ZAZ Chance as a surveillance and getaway car. The Kremlin investigation, it appears will settle on the charge that the Chechen 5 killed Nemtsov on their own out of anger over his rebuke of the Charlie Hebdo killings on January 10.
The Race To Caliphate
The quality of ISIS video releases fluctuated as the organization gained momentum, but overall, the group’s media team improved steadily over time, even as the quantity of its output increased.
Kori Schake On Bloomberg Radio
Hoover fellow Kori Schake discusses President Obama’s plan to slow troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Schake notes that the end game of war should be dictated by the circumstances not by an artificial timeline. Schake believes that Obama does not want another Iraq on his hands and therefore he wants to leave troops in Afghanistan for a longer period of time.
ISIS As Cult
In a study that is widely seen as among the most important contributions to social psychology, a team of observers joined a prophetic, apocalyptic cult to determine what would happen to the group if the predicted events failed to materialize.
The Nemtsov Murder Investigation: A Battle Of Leaks
The Nemtsov murder is part of a power struggle within Putin’s power vertical. The investigation will likely determine implausibly that it was planned and executed by low-level Chechen thugs, acting on their own out of religious hatred spawned by Nemtsov’s support of Charlie Hebdo.
“A Necessary, If Still Unpalatable, Potential Ally In Combating The Islamic State”
Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying—with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law—some morally complicated aspect of U.S. counterterrorism policy.
A Worry About The New Executive Order On Sanctions For Malicious Cyber Activity
As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trade through cyber means or against important cyber assets and/or restrictions or bans on travel to the United States on such individuals.
An Apparently Real Paintball Drone
Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting A New Age of Threat
The Hidden Hand Behind The Islamic State Militants? Saddam Hussein’s
This is part of an occasional series about the militant group Islamic State and its violent collision with the United States and others intent on halting the group’s rapid rise.
PCLOB Takes On Executive Order 12333 Surveillance
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday had a public meeting yesterday to, as its web site describes it, “discuss and vote on a proposed plan for its review of counterterrorism activities conducted by the Intelligence Community under Executive Order 12333.”
The Consequences Of Congressional Inaction On The AUMF
Yesterday, I wrote about the consequences of congressional inaction over the next two months with respect to Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Today, I want to focus on another area where Congress is poised to do nothing: authorizing force against the Islamic State.
Political Islam: Will It Bury Us?
Said to have “no place in the modern world,” Islamist extremists may bury that modern world.
Defend the Offender
A healthy society strikes this deal: to be tolerated yourself, you must tolerate what offends you.
Aux Armes!
The French are now on the front lines of the struggle against radical Islam. Can they hold it back?
The Sea the Sharks Swim In
Islamist extremists prey on their own people even as they draw strength from them.
More On The Legal Basis For The Administration’s Disregard Of Congressional Restrictions On Detainee Transfers In The Bergdahl Context, And On The Implications For Closing GTMO
Last summer I wrote of the administration’s constitutional arguments for disregarding congressional transfer restrictions in swapping the Taliban 5 for Bowe Bergdahl
Know Thy Enemy
Identifying the ideological foundations of hostile Islamism may enable us to defeat it.