The Just Security Podcast
Just Security is an online forum for the rigorous analysis of national security, foreign policy, and rights. We aim to promote principled solutions to problems confronting decision-makers in the United States and abroad. Our expert authors are individuals with significant government experience, academics, civil society practitioners, individuals directly affected by national security policies, and other leading voices.
Episodes
81 episodes since 2022
Strategic Risks of AI and Recapping the 2024 REAIM Summit
From gathering and analyzing information to battlefield operations, States are integrating AI into a range of military and intelligence operations. Gaza and Ukraine are battle labs for this new technology. But many questions remain about whethe...
September 12, 2024
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Episode 81
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29:11
Assessing the Recent Response of International Law and Institutions in Palestine and Israel
The situation in Israel and Palestine raises some of the most complex and contested issues in international law. In the past few years, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and a U.N.-backed Independent Commissi...
August 21, 2024
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Episode 80
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2:19:03
How Can the U.S. Address Political Violence and Threats?
From the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, political violence in the United States is on the minds of many around the country and around the world. As the 2024 election draws closer, now is a...
August 12, 2024
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Episode 79
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34:08
Assessing the Laws of War
At their core, the laws of war seek to preserve humanity in the most difficult conditions. As Dr. Cordula Droege, the chief legal officer and head of the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (or ICRC) recently wrote fo...
August 02, 2024
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Episode 78
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57:52
The Evolution of U.S. Hostage Policy
August this year marks 10 years since the shocking execution of American freelance journalist James Foley at the hands of ISIS amid the war in Syria in 2014. His videotaped decapitation was the first of a spree of ISIS beheadings, including sev...
August 01, 2024
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Episode 77
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1:02:19
An Innovative Lawsuit Links Social Media Companies to Mass Shootings
In November 2021, a teenager in rural Texas downloaded the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and quickly became obsessed. He began to research weapons from the game, including a military-grade assault rifle. The company that manu...
July 19, 2024
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Episode 76
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37:35
NATO's Washington Summit: Russia's War on Ukraine Tests Alliance
This week, leaders from across the Euro-Atlantic region met in Washington, D.C., for the annual NATO Summit. The security pact turned 75 this year, and its 32 members are facing challenges on multiple fronts, from Russia’s continuing bombardmen...
July 12, 2024
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Episode 75
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33:29
Presidential Immunity After Trump v. United States
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Trump v. United States, finding that former presidents have “absolute immunity” for certain “official acts” taken while in office. The decision is a potentially sweeping expansio...
July 03, 2024
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Episode 74
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1:09:24
ICC Arrest Warrants for Russian Attacks on Ukraine’s Power Grid
On June 24, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two top Russian officials for wa...
June 28, 2024
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Episode 73
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31:30
Attacks on Health in Armed Conflict
The latest annual report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition identif...
June 24, 2024
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Episode 72
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1:01:40
Protecting Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict
Just over two years ago, Russian forces fired a missile that destroyed a museum complex in Ukraine. The attack decimated the home of 18th-century Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhorii Skovoroda. Hundreds of years after his death, Skovoroda is...
June 14, 2024
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Episode 71
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14:54
'The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' Book Talk
Borders between countries are often dangerous, violent places. From the sands of the Sahel to the islands of the Mediterranean, borders allow governments to define who can enter a country – often deciding whether a person can find refuge or is ...
June 07, 2024
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Episode 70
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31:51
A Landmark Court Opinion on the Ocean and Climate Change
Last week, an international court issued a major decision that could impact how nations around the world address climate change and protect the ocean. On May 21, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), also known ...
May 28, 2024
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Episode 69
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25:48
Courtroom Views from Inside Trump’s New York Criminal Trial
We are over a month into former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial. The prosecution and defense have each presented their cases, and a Manhattan jury will soon decide whether Trump broke the law and interfered in the 2016 election...
May 24, 2024
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Episode 68
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49:23
A Request for ICC Arrest Warrants and the Israel-Hamas War
On Monday, May 20, International Criminal Court head Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he has submitted an application to the Court’s judges to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the...
May 20, 2024
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Episode 67
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55:31
The 'Year of Climate' in International Courts
Last month, Europe’s top human rights court issued a major decision in the fight against climate change. In KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, the highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that the Swiss government has ...
May 08, 2024
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Episode 66
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41:27
Harm to Women in War Goes Beyond Sexual Violence: `Obstetric Violence' Neglected
In recent decades, the international community has sought to address the particular harms that women and girls experience in war. International law now punishes sexual violence in armed conflict. And there’s the Women, Peace and Security agenda...
April 26, 2024
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Episode 65
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31:36
United States v. Trump: Presidential Immunity from Criminal Conduct
On April 17, 2024, NYU School of Law hosted a panel of experts to discuss whether a former President enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct that allegedly involved official acts during his tenure in office. The Supreme Court is c...
April 19, 2024
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Episode 64
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1:15:05
The Starvation War Crime in Sudan and Gaza
Sudan and Gaza are teetering on the brink of man-made famine. In Sudan, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival Rapid Support Forces has displaced more than 7 million people with 18 million people enduring acute foo...
April 04, 2024
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Episode 63
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45:49
A Russian Legal Scholar in Exile on the Future of Resistance to Putin
Vladimir Putin recently claimed victory as Russia’s president despite extensive evidence that the “election” was illegitimate in a number of ways. His repression, including evidence of State-ordered assassinations and assassination attempts, an...
March 29, 2024
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Episode 62
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39:03
Crisis in Haiti
Haiti’s crisis of gang violence and political dysfunction has been spiraling out of control. The number of report...
March 19, 2024
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Episode 61
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33:59
International Law in the Face of Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine: The View from Lviv
In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, the fighting has caused widespread horror and devastation. Over 10,000 civilians have been killed and more than half a million people injured. Still millions of others are in...
March 15, 2024
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Episode 60
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42:28
Social Media, Government Jawboning, and the First Amendment at the Supreme Court
On March 6, 2024, Just Security and the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law co-hosted an all-star panel of experts to discuss the issue of government “jawboning” – a practice of informal government efforts to persuade, or stro...
March 11, 2024
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Episode 59
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1:14:56
Book Talk: Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America
On February 27, 2024, Just Security hosted a live event for the launch of Professor Barbara McQuade’s new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. Barbara is an Editor at Just Security and a Professor from Pr...
March 07, 2024
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Episode 58
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57:34
A Conversation with Avril Haines the Director of National Intelligence of the United States
On Feb. 29, 2024, Just Security welcomed the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, to NYU School of Law for an event in celebration of Just Security’s 10th anniversary year.Just Security’s Co-Editors-in-Chief, Tess Bridgeman a...
March 01, 2024
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Episode 57
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1:07:31