On June 18, 2023, the Canadian government publicly accused the Indian government of killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and a prominent leader in the Khalistan movement that advocates for an independent homeland in the Punjab region of India. This case illustrates an extraterritorial killing—a form of unlawful killing related to extrajudicial killings. Even [...]
The concept of messianic multipolarity, as articulated in the context of Russian foreign policy, offers a powerful lens through which to understand the foreign and domestic strategies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Messianic multipolarity fuses a realist multipolar vision of global power—one where multiple centers of influence compete—with a quasi-religious or ideological mission. In [...]
“I don’t wanna give it, why you wanna give it? Why you wanna give it all away?” — Big Yellow Taxi (Counting Crows version of Joni Mitchell‘s song) Unlike Richard Wright, the great author who moved to Paris in 1949, and wrote upon his arrival in Paris the famous piece “I Choose Exile,” I did [...]
As the leaders of the US and Russia prepare to meet in Alaska, analysts are trying to predict the potential policy implications of the historic summit. In contrast to the normal patterns of analysis of opaque autocracies and transparent democracies, the tricky part of this equation is not Russia’s Vladimir Putin, but US President Donald [...]
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” — Winston Churchill As the world watches with bated breath, US President Donald Trump gears up for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, an encounter that echoes with eerie resonance the fateful meeting between British Prime Minister Neville [...]
When US President Donald J. Trump proposes that Russia and Ukraine “swap territories,” he is advocating multiple violations of international law and United States law. In essence, Russian President Vladimir Putin acquired Ukrainian territories by committing grievous acts of aggression, and thus has no conceivable legal right to keep them. Ipso facto, if Trump diplomacy [...]
“History is an illustrious war against death.” Jose Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Policy Contexts and Legal Obligations Even after defeating Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah on tangible fields of battle, Israel has ample reason to stay vigilant against jihadi terrorism. In essence, Israel’s recent tactical successes have been partial and transient. This is [...]
The United States is Israel’s largest supplier of arms. Now, a United Nations committee is investigating whether its transfers of bombs, fighter jets and other weapons violate international law. On May 12, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) launched a formal inquiry into arms exports by both the United States [...]
Demographic decline, once dismissed as a niche obsession of “pronatalists” on the right, has increasingly gained mainstream media and scholarly attention in the United States. In this way the US is somewhat behind the curve; falling birthrates have long obsessed policymakers abroad, particularly in East Asia and Europe. Nevertheless, in popular US discourse, demographic decline [...]
Thinking about writing a legal commentary on the threats to naturalized and birthright citizens in the United States, it unexpectedly occurred to me to question Grok, the large language model (LLM) Elon Musk developed after the success of ChatGPT. Having taught law for decades using the Socratic method, I was curious how Grok would handle [...]
