nuclear war

Barack Obama, Donald Trump, History, International Law, NATO, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, nuclear war, Russia, Soviet Union, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, U.S. Congress, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin December 22, 2016

Trump’s tweets on nuclear build-up: A response to Putin’s implicit threat?

Developing See Mchael D. Shear and James Glanz, “Trump Says the U.S. Should Expand Its Nuclear Capacity,” New York Times, December 22, 2016. Shear and…

Crimea, Donald Trump, elections, Hillary Clinton, History, Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, Nuclear Proliferation, nuclear war, Russia, Soviet Union, syria, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin

Trump, Clinton, and the risk of nuclear war

2016 U.S. Presidential election, Crimea, Deutschland, Donald Trump, elections, European Union, foreign news coverage, Germany, Hillary Clinton, History, internal supporters of human rights, Justice Department, NATO, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, State Department, syria, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

Donald Trump, Russian stooge: Putin’s Trojan horse within striking distance of victory over NATO, the EU, and the Atlantic Alliance

Deutschland, elections, Germany, History, nuclear war, Russia, Torture, U.N. Torture Convention, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin

U.S. Presidential Election: Will the American people pass the nuclear codes to Donald Trump?

Barack Obama, Crimea, Dictatorship, European Union, human rights, International Law, NATO, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, syria, targeted assassinations, U.N. Charter, U.S. Military, Ukraine, use of force, Vladimir Putin

Syria: Russian victory, American defeat

Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, European Union, Google indexing, History, human rights, International Law, Iraq, NATO, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, syria, U.N. Charter, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

REPRISE: Crumbling world order: Power politics and international law

Barack Obama, Crimea, Google filtering, History, International Law, NATO, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, syria, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

Update on Putin and Syria

Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Deutschland, European Union, France, freedom of speech, Germany, History, human rights, International Law, NATO, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, Turkey, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

Thinking clearly about Putin and Syria

Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Deutschland, extrajudicial execution, extraordinary rendering, extraordinary rendition, France, Germany, History, human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, NATO, Nobel Lecture, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Proliferation, nuclear war, OSCE, Oslo, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, self-defense, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, Taliban, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United States, use of force, vision of peace, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

REPRISE: Veterans’ Day, 2011: “Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?”

Barack Obama, Crimea, International Law, nuclear war, Russia, Soviet Union, syria, U.S. Military, U.S. news coverage, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin October 8, 2015

Putin’s playing “chicken” in Syria and the risk of escalation to nuclear war

Developing With reports of Russian aircraft having forced American planes to change course in order to avoid a collision, the risks of escalation in Syria…

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