“Let there be no doubt,” President Obama declared in his 2012 State of the Union address. “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will…
Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, who studied at Yale with the respected economist James Tobin, the first to propose the financial transaction tax, said that his one-time mentor likened…
Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a…
On November 19, Ahmed Harara, a 31-year-old activist who lost his right eye during the uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, lost his left eye while protesting the military junta…
The signs are clear: Bashar al-Assad is in a state of desperation, and his latest speech in front of Syrian parliament proves it: having played most of the cards at…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the infamous Guantánamo Bay detention camp. This place created by G. W. Bush but still in existence today under the presidency…
This episode of Rights and Security deals with the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen of Sudanese origin who was detained and tortured while visiting his native country. It…
It was going to be a real long-shot, with million-to-one odds. It was going to be the first time in living memory that the King of a country commissioned and…
On December 7, 2011 Prime Minister Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama jointly announced the Action Plan on Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness. The Canadian government praised this Action Plan…
On January 11 it will have been a decade since the first of the men we once called “the worst of the worst” were brought to Guantánamo Bay, a location…