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Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 117, 2nd Quarter 2025, National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly

Joint Force Quarterly 117 centers on the urgent call for bold, visionary leadership within the U.S. Joint Force. Highlighting challenges such as integrated deterrence, alternative manning strategies, and China’s military reforms, this issue provides strategic insights for future readiness. It features forward-leaning proposals on air defense, military housing, and medical innovation, alongside historical case studies from Okinawa and Leyte. Book reviews and expert commentary further enrich the discourse on contemporary military leadership and strategy.

Imitation, The Sincerest Form Of Flattery: Whether The Unauthorized Use Of A Trademark After The Termination Of A Franchise Constitutes Counterfeiting?, Rachel Auld

Liberty University Research Week

This note examines whether the unauthorized use of a trademark after the termination of a franchise constitutes counterfeiting. Currently, the Sixth Circuit and Ninth Circuit of the United States are divided in answering this question. The Sixth Circuit held that a franchisee’s use of a franchisor’s trademark following the termination of a franchise does not constitute a counterfeit mark under the Lanham Act. However, the Ninth Circuit held that a licensee’s use of a licensor’s certification mark following the termination of the license does constitute a counterfeit mark. While certification marks and trademarks differ in name, the core purpose of …

Preserving Life, Protecting Dignity: A Call To Abolish Physician-Assisted Suicide, Adeline Holcombe

Liberty University Research Week

The legalization of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in states such as California and Oregon has introduced a dangerous contradiction into American law and ethics – undermining the state’s longstanding interest in preserving human life while eroding the sanctity of life itself. This research aims to analyze: How do laws legalizing physician-assisted suicide conflict with the state’s compelling interest in preserving life, and how does the biblical principle of the sanctity of life provide a more coherent legal and ethical foundation? This project will employ a legal textual analysis of primary legal sources, including Washington v. Glucksberg, Vacco v. Quill, and state …

Feasting At The Threshold: Eucharistic Eroticism And Homonationalism In Diane Duane's The Tale Of The Five, Taylor Driggers

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Diane Duane’s ongoing fantasy series The Tale of the Five (1979–present) is set in a world marked by constant bodily transgressions and surprises, where a human and dragon can occupy the same body and become lovers and a one-night stand can bring one face-to-face with God. This essay will argue that Duane’s series articulates eroticism in a manner comparable to Linn Marie Tonstad’s (2016) queer re-visioning of transubstantiation and bodily and spiritual transformation through the Eucharist. Acts of eating and drinking serve to highlight how characters’ pansexual, polyamorous relations with each other and the love of the Goddess spill over …

The Middle-(Un)Man Of Desire: A Girardian Reading Of Perelandra, Clinton Manley

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

The French polymath René Girard presents a compelling argument that all desire is mimetic. According to Girard, we don’t actually know what we want; instead, we imitate the desires of others. These models of desire act as mediators, indicating what objects or ways of being are worth pursuing. For Girard, desire exists in this middle place between a subject, a model, and an object. He famously argues that all great literature leverages an awareness of mimetic dynamics; the greater the work, the more mimetically perspicacious the author.

Given Girard’s theory, we would expect the greatest fantasy authors to erect their …

An Aspirational Cultus? Tolkien Fandom At The Borders Of Belief, Tom Emanuel

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

This paper draws upon fan studies, sociology of religion, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of sub-creation to theorize the religious implications of Enyalië (Quenya: remembrance), the emotionally charged graveside memorial which closes the U.K. Tolkien Society’s annual gathering in Oxford. Employing a framework of religion as sacred worldbuilding, the author argues that Enyalië is best understood as the “secondary liturgy” of the “secondary faith community” that is Tolkien fandom. The paper concludes that Tolkien’s fiction, his community of devoted fans, and the lineaments of religious ritual have combined, in Enyalië, to produce a fan practice which troubles the boundaries …

National Security Law, Barbara Linney, Orga Cadet, Geoffrey Goodale, Jonathan Meyer

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International Animal Law, Daina Bray, Paula Cardoso, Jessica Chapman, Hira Jaleel, Rajesh K. Reddy, Joan Schaffner

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Export Controls And Economic Sanctions, John Boscariol, Sylvia Costelloe, Abigail Cotterill, Mary Mikhaeel, Timothy O'Toole, Christopher Stagg, Lawrence Ward

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Customs Law, Adrienne Braumiller, Shannon Fura, David J. Glynn, Geoffrey Goodale, Lawrence Hanson, Jeremy Page, Michael Roll, George Tuttle Iii

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International Section Ethics Committee, David Levine, Amy Bowers, Antonia Iragorri, Tiffany Comprés, Roland Potts

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International Refugee Law, Banke Olagbegi-Oloba, Marie Isabelle Dumont, Marlyse Sime, Reuben Moses

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International Human Rights, Daniel L. Appelman, Carlos De Miguel Perales, Corrine Lewis, Shauna Curphey, Lawrence C. Locker, Sara Sandford, Cyreka Jacobs, Jaclyn Fortini Laing, Morvarid Bagheri, Constance Z. Wagner

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International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski

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Immigration And Naturalization, Eshigo P. Okasili, Michael Freestone, Hon. Joan Churchill, Betina Schlossberg

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Private International Law, Houston Putnam Lowry

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International Finance & Securities, Walter Stuber, Mohamed Hashish

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Middle East, Kelly Blount, Harry Baumgarten, Nicolas Bremer, Benjamin Leventhal, Austin Pierce, Seyed Mohsen Rowhani, Howard L. Stovall, Michael Traison

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Europe, James Henry Bergeron, Willem Den Hertog, Jonathan A. Mcgowan, Valeria Camboni Miller, Austin Pierce, Matthew Soper

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Africa, Tereza Garcia André, Anne Bodley, Mankah Fombang, Sara Frazão, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Tyler Holmes, Momodou Manneh, Mary Musoni, Flora Mweseli, Yaa Boatemaa Ohene-Bonsu, Ivan Ojakol, Ricardo Alves Silva, Tania Tossa

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Women's Interest Network, Christine Korper Ed., Hannah Alderks, Marie Elena Angulo, Erica Burgos, Michela Cocchi, Estafanía Díaz González, Angela M. Gallerizzo, Dolly Hernandez, Margaret Kamm, Dana Katz, Julie King, Sierra Paola, Vanessa Romero Rocha, Aina Serret, Sandhya Taneja, Lisa Wolf

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Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Mark E. Wojcik

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International Litigation, Aaron Marr Page, Jonathan I. Blackman, Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Theodore J. Folkman, Phillip B. Dye Jr., Matthew D. Slater, Howard S. Zelbo, Igor V. Timofeyev, Charles A. Patrizia, Joseph R. Profaizer

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International Criminal Law, Andrew Boyle, Beth Farmer, Timothy Franklin, Melissa Ginsberg, Leila Sadat

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International Courts & Judicial Affairs, Sara L. Ochs, Paula Henin, Paola Patarroyo, Haydee Dijkstal, Ira Trako, Kabir Duggal, Chloë Fletcher, Alexander Witt, Marc Weitz

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International Arbitration, Sergey Petrachkov, Daryna Hrebeniuk, Oksana Karel, Jeffrey Rosenthal, Katerina Wright, Keara A. Bergin, Christopher P. Denicola, Brendan Clancy, Patrick Roche, Marcus Walsh, Caoimhe Clarkin, Peter Ashford, Kate Felmingham, Antonio Canales, Marianne Chao, John Cooper, Michael P. Daly, Mercedes Fernandez, Carla Gharibian, Melissa Stear Gorsline, Haifeng Huang, Elie Kleiman, Annie Leaks, Fernando F. Pastore, Maria I. Pradilla Picas, Iris Sauvagnac, Cristina Perez Soto, Johannes Willheim, Joyce Fong, Christina Nitsche, Dan Perera, Anthony Lynch, Héctor Scaianschi Márquez, Preeti Bhangnani, Eric Lenier Ives, Fernando Navarro, Tom Pearson

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Life Sciences & Health Law, Adalberto López López, Yevgeniya Ocheretko, Carly M. Toepke, Arina Zadorozhna, José Alan Zamarripa Miramontes

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International Art And Cultural Heritage Law, Lois E. Wetzel, Jacqueline Chezar, David Bright, Kevin Ray

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International Tax, Dr. Joshua Bamfo, Paul D. Carman, Alessandro Farris, André Gomes De Oliveira, Zaynab Hisaund, Tianlong Lawrence Hu, Shigeki Minami, Jackie Peart, Roger Smith, Liudmila Titova

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International Antitrust, Miguel Del Pino, Elizabeth Avery, Rebecca Mahony, Bruno Drago, Paola Pugliese, Milena Mundim, Adam S. Goodman, Peter Wang, Yizhe Wang, Peter Camesasca, Laurie Anne Grelier, Naval Satarawala Chopra, Aman Singh Sethi, Shigeyoshi Ezaki, Vassili Moussis, Kiyoko Yagami, Naoki Uemura, Youngjin Jung, Maria Hajiyerou, Eun Hee Kim, Lara Granville, Neil Cunninghame, Lisl Dunlop

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