The Lawfare Podcast: Helen Mohrmann on Cybersecurity in an Insecure Environment
As listeners may know, while we often talk about cybersecurity on the show, Brookings itself has been subject to a number of cyber-attacks in recent years. Those attacks have ranged from infiltration...
9 Okt 201549min
The Lawfare Podcast: How Anwar al Awlaki Become Objective Troy
This week, New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane came on the Lawfare Podcast to provide an overview of his new book on the life and death of radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki, Obj...
2 Okt 201550min
The Lawfare Podcast: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the state-of-play currently in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an...
25 Sep 201540min
The Lawfare Podcast: Richard Gross on the Law of Hybrid Conflict
Last week, Ben attended a symposium at the Pentagon on the rise of so-called “hybrid conflicts,” whereprofessionals from around the national security establishment attempted to define the idea as well...
18 Sep 201530min
The Lawfare Podcast: A Band-Aid for a Bomber: Is Medical Assistance to Terrorists Protected Under IHL?
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Ben sits down with Professor Gabriella Blum, professor at Harvard Law School, and Dustin Lewis, a senior researcher at Harvard Law Schools’ Program on International Law...
11 Sep 201529min
Encore Performance: Bone-Crushing Zombie Action
It's a special encore performance of our panel discussion from last year on the legal architecture of the zombie apocalypse: Foreign Policy's Shane Harris hosts a panel--incuding Bobby Chesney, Benjam...
29 Aug 201538min
The Lawfare Podcast: The American Defense Economy and the Future of American Prosperity
With Congress is away, the economists will play, and last week, Brookings hosted a discussion on the health of the U.S. national security industrial base. The panel, which featured Brookings scholars ...
21 Aug 20151h 33min
The Lawfare Podcast: Mike Janke on Encryption, Going Dark, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Last week, Ben posted five hard questions to both government and industry regarding encryption and the "going dark" debate. We posed these questions and more on the issues of technology, public policy...
14 Aug 201543min
