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Extinguishing The Torch Of Terror: The Threat Of Terrorism And The 2010 Olympics, Serge E. Vidalis
Extinguishing The Torch Of Terror: The Threat Of Terrorism And The 2010 Olympics, Serge E. Vidalis
Journal of Strategic Security
With the change in seasons comes the expected change of insurgency operations in Afghanistan as Taliban and al-Qaida fighters mount their spring and summer offensives against both NATO forces and Afghanis sympathetic to foreign troops. As insurgents curtail their seasonal operations with the arrival of fall and winter, is it likely that a threat may arise from Afghanistan to affect the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia? As will be illustrated herein, the threat to the games will not be borne directly from the insurgency in Afghanistan but rather by the universal jihadist ideology of al-Qaida rather than the nationalist …
What Price Security?, Donald C. Masters
What Price Security?, Donald C. Masters
Journal of Strategic Security
This article presents a critique of the Copenhagen Consensus Center's(CCC) exhaustive study on transnational terrorism, published in 2008.The implications of this study are controversial, yet highly relevant in today's economic environment. The Obama administration must come toterms with fiscal realities that will challenge budget priorities and invigorate what will undoubtedly prove to be tough negotiations on Capitol Hill for homeland security dollars. It is proposed here that standard economic tools such as benefit cost analysis, cost effectiveness criteria, and simulation models can help identify areas where security can be either extended or improved using fewer resources. Greater movement towards competitive …
Targeted Killing In U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy And Law, Kenneth Anderson
Targeted Killing In U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy And Law, Kenneth Anderson
Working Papers
Targeted killing, particularly through the use of missiles fired from Predator drone aircraft, has become an important, and internationally controversial, part of the US war against al Qaeda in Pakistan and other places. The Obama administration, both during the campaign and in its first months in office, has publicly embraced the strategy as a form of counterterrorism. This paper argues, however, that unless the Obama administration takes careful and assertive legal steps to protect it, targeted killing using remote platforms such as drone aircraft will take on greater strategic salience precisely as the Obama administration allows the legal space for …
Targeted Killing: Self-Defense, Preemption, And The War On Terrorism, Thomas Byron Hunter
Targeted Killing: Self-Defense, Preemption, And The War On Terrorism, Thomas Byron Hunter
Journal of Strategic Security
This paper assesses the parameters and utility of “targeted killing” in combating terrorism and its role within the norm of state self-defense in the international community. The author’s thesis is that, while targeted killing provides states with a method of combating terrorism, and while it is “effective” on a number of levels, it is inherently limited and not a panacea. The adoption and execution of such a program brings with it, among other potential pitfalls, political repercussions. Targeted killing is defined herein as the premeditated, preemptive, and intentional killing of an individual or individuals known or believed to represent a …
Combating Terrorist Financing: General Report Of The Cleveland Preparatory Colloquium, Nikos Passas
Combating Terrorist Financing: General Report Of The Cleveland Preparatory Colloquium, Nikos Passas
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Agroterrorism And Ecoterrorism: A Survey Of Indo-American Approaches Under Law And Policy To Prevent And Defend Against The Potential Threats Ahead, Kevin H. Govern
Agroterrorism And Ecoterrorism: A Survey Of Indo-American Approaches Under Law And Policy To Prevent And Defend Against The Potential Threats Ahead, Kevin H. Govern
Kevin H. Govern
“Agroterrorism is a subset of bioterrorism, and is defined as the deliberate introduction of an animal or plant disease with the goal of generating fear, causing economic losses, and/or undermining social stability.” Its partner in crime is ecoterrorism, “the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.” Furthermore, “[a]s recently as June 2004, the FBI designated ‘eco-terrorism’ . . . as the [U.S.’] number one militant chal- lenge emanating from inside its …
Responses To Ten Questions, Scott Horton
Responses To Ten Questions, Scott Horton
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To Ten Questions, Gregory E. Maggs
Responses To Ten Questions, Gregory E. Maggs
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To Ten Questions, William C. Banks
Responses To Ten Questions, William C. Banks
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To Ten Questions, Stephen Dycus
Responses To Ten Questions, Stephen Dycus
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Security Detention, Terrorism, And The Prevention Imperative, John Mcloughlin, Gregory P. Noone, Diana C. Noone
Security Detention, Terrorism, And The Prevention Imperative, John Mcloughlin, Gregory P. Noone, Diana C. Noone
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
We're All Experts Now: A Security Case Against Security Detention, Deborah Pearlstein
We're All Experts Now: A Security Case Against Security Detention, Deborah Pearlstein
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Notice Otherwise Given: Will In Absentia Trials At The Special Tribunal For Lebanon Violate Human Rights?, Chris Jenks
Notice Otherwise Given: Will In Absentia Trials At The Special Tribunal For Lebanon Violate Human Rights?, Chris Jenks
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
On March 1, 2009, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) commenced operations in the Netherlands. The mandate of the STL is to try those allegedly responsible for the 2005 bombing in Beirut which killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. A collaborative effort between Lebanon and the United Nations, the STL is to be of “international character based on the highest standards of justice.” However, the STL’s in absentia trial provisions are based on a far different, and lower, standard. This article posits that the STL’s in absentia trial provisions violate human rights norms, indeed the U.N. expressly rejected such …
Responses To The Ten Questions [On National Security Posed By The Journal Of National Security Forum Board Of Editors], Gregory E. Maggs
Responses To The Ten Questions [On National Security Posed By The Journal Of National Security Forum Board Of Editors], Gregory E. Maggs
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In 2009, the Journal of the National Security Forum Board of Editors posed ten questions on national security to a group of national-security law experts. Contributors were free to answer as many of the ten questions as they wished. All responses were published in a special issue of the William Mitchell Law Review. I answered the following three questions: 3. What are the lessons from detaining non-U.S. citizens, labeled enemy combatants, at Gitmo? 4. What is left for the Supreme Court to decide after the Boumediene decision? 10. What is the most important issue for American national security?
The SSRN …
Reaching Beyond Banks: How To Target Trade-Based Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing Outside The Financial Sector, Ross S. Delston, Stephen C. Walls
Reaching Beyond Banks: How To Target Trade-Based Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing Outside The Financial Sector, Ross S. Delston, Stephen C. Walls
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
International Standards For Detaining Terrorism Suspects: Moving Beyond The Armed Conflict-Criminal Divide, Monica Hakimi
International Standards For Detaining Terrorism Suspects: Moving Beyond The Armed Conflict-Criminal Divide, Monica Hakimi
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Foreword: Combating Terrorist Financing, Richard Gordon, Christyn Rossman
Foreword: Combating Terrorist Financing, Richard Gordon, Christyn Rossman
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Time To Reexamine Regulation Designed To Counter The Financing Of Terrorism, Richard Barrett
Time To Reexamine Regulation Designed To Counter The Financing Of Terrorism, Richard Barrett
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
The Demise Of The U.N. Economic Sanctions Regime To Deprive Terrorists Of Funding, Jimmy Gurule
The Demise Of The U.N. Economic Sanctions Regime To Deprive Terrorists Of Funding, Jimmy Gurule
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Disrupting Terrorist Financing With Civil Litigation, Jack D. Smith, Gregory J. Cooper
Disrupting Terrorist Financing With Civil Litigation, Jack D. Smith, Gregory J. Cooper
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.