US Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy on Iran Reading
Foreign Policy posted its 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn’t Want You to Read yesterday, and coming in at #1: Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Keep track of some of Afary’s recent articles here >>
Al-Qaida Today
I have met former jihadis and Islamists in many countries who tell me that al-Qaida’s gruesome attacks on civilians, particularly in Muslim countries – and the mayhem these wrought – have relegated al-Qaida to the margins of Islamic society, with few allies and insecure sanctuaries.
ICC to arrest al-Bashir?
Earlier this week, the Times reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will likely issue an arrest warrant for Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. This would be the first such warrant for a sitting head of state.
In an unusual statement on Monday, the three pretrial judges on the court said they were giving the date in [...]
Karen Greenberg on The Daily Show
Karen Greenberg of NYU published two groundbreaking books with us: The Torture Papers and The Enemy Combatant Papers, both legal records of US treatment of “detainees” and enemy combatants since 9/11.
Greenberg was scheduled to be interviewed on The Daily Show last year, but the writer’s strike started that very day, putting the show [...]
John Hagan Wins Criminology Prize
Cambridge author John Hagan’s research recently produced Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, which examines a 2004 US State department survey of the Darfur region. The results of this survey were never applied. His extensive work applying criminology to genocide won him the 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.
In 2003-5, John Hagan pioneered the application of [...]
