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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 30, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Suncor v. Boulder: Why the Constitution and the Clean Air Act Leave Deception-Based Climate Claims Standing by Michael Burger
• Any State Can Make AI Safety Cooperation Legal by Tal Feldman, Kevin Xiao, and Ibrahim Dagher
• Obstacles to Europe’s Emerging Role in Global Anti-Corruption Enforcement by Noam Kozlov

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 29, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• The AI Governance Momentum: Why We Need to Fill the Accountability Gap Now by Julie Owono
• When Intelligence Becomes a Strategic Asset: Frontier AI, Sandbox Breakouts, and the Case for Independent Oversight by Josh Richards and Gabe Arrington
• Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free by Carol Rosenberg

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 28, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Last Week on Just Security:

• Proposed U.S. Sanctions Against the Int’l Criminal Court Could Lead to Detainees’ Release by Ryan Goodman and Siven Watt
• Journalists Show Power of Solidarity in Response to White House Press Ban by Rebecca Hamilton
• Taiwan Should Set the Standard for Industrial AI Security by Ethan Chiu and Brian Jay Tang

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 25, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• The Just Security Podcast: What’s Behind the Justice Department’s FARA Announcement? by David Aaron and Adam Hickey
• Persecution by Other Means: Mexico and the First Test of the ICC’s Cyber Policy by Lindsay Freeman
• Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at Guantanamo by Carol Rosenberg

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 24, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Hard Lessons from Brazil on Defending Democracy by Laura Thornton
• Expert Backgrounder: Weapons in Space Under International Law by Michael Schmitt
• With Muse, Meta Could Have the Power to Decide What Matters in Your Life by Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 23, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Collection: Questions for Congress by Just Security
• Questions for Congress Venezuela’s Assets by Kate Brannen and Tess Bridgeman
• Syria’s Domestic Accountability Process by Terry Flyte

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 22, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• State Attorneys General Can Enforce Federal Laws the Executive Branch Won’t by David L. Noll
• Keep the Blue Helmets Ready — They Are Needed More Than Ever by David Haeri
• Federal Employees’ AI Prompts Are Records … in Narrow Circumstances by Asad Ramzanali and Margaret Mullins

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 21, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last Week on Just Security:

• Timeline of Boat Strikes and Related Actions by Jeremy Chin, Margaret Lin, Aidan Arasasingham, and Marie Miller
• The Latest from the Alien Terrorist Removal Court by Jess Dawgert and Steve Vladeck
• The Second AI Election: Testing the Safeguards Before November by Lawrence Norden and David Evan Harris

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 18, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• Reinvention Blueprint No. 3: To Unmake the Surveillance State, Rethink the Privacy Act by Hannah Bloch-Wehba
• As Leaders Gather at the U.N. General Assembly, Competition May Outdo Cooperation by Richard Gowan, Daniel Forti and Mariea Sekijima
• America Sent Them Into a Dictatorship’s Torture Chambers, Then Looked Away by Tutu Alicante

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 17, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• The War on Terror: A Quarter Century of Unheeded Warnings by Helen Duffy
• Don’t Let Lebanon’s Peace Agreement Prove Hezbollah Right by Jean Aziz
• “They Will Kill Me”: Haitian Deportees from U.S. Face Fear, Uncertainty by Nathalye Cotrino

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 16, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• Tying Tech to the Mast: What Independent Oversight at the AI Frontier Must Get Right by Suzanne Nossel
• The Limits of the Law of Armed Conflict: Individual Accountability Should Not Obscure State Responsibility for U.S. Strikes on Iran School by Charlie Trumbull
• Don’t Let Syria’s Recovery Become Collateral Damage in the Iran-U.S. War by Dafna H. Rand and Jad Abdel Nour

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 15, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• Withholding Consent: Dominant Parties, Opposition Failure, and Youth Disengagement in Southern Africa by Wiriranai Brilliant Masara and Amara Galileo
• A Plea from Forgotten Families in Detention in Northeast Syria: “What Will Happen to Our Children?” by Beatrice Eriksson and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)
• Who Checks the President? Not the Military by Paul Rasmussen and Annette Kwan

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 14, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last Week on Just Security:

• What’s Conspicuously Missing from the Government’s Supreme Court Reply Brief in the Mail Ballots Case by Marty Lederman
• 9/11 Then and Now: How It Shapes Us 25 Years On
  By Just Security

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 10, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• The Just Security Podcast: 9/11 at 25 Years: The State of U.S. National Security, Intelligence, and Alliances Today by Ambassador Daniel Fried, Nicholas Rasmussen, Ryan Goodman, and Tess Bridgeman
• “Can These Bones Live?”: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11 by David Blight
• A Crucial Moment for Persons with Disabilities: The Right to Community Inclusion vs. Institutionalization by Matthew “Hezzy” Smith, Michael Ashley Stein, and Janet Lord

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 10, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• Governors and State Administration by Miriam Seifter
• Ratko Mladić Is Dead, Yet Legions Mourn This “Butcher of Bosnia” and Celebrate His Crimes by Ehlimana Memišević
• 9/11 Then and Now: How It Shapes Us 25 Years On by Just Security

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 9, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security:

• The Simplest Way for the Supreme Court to Rule in the USPS Mail Ballots Case by Marty Lederman
• What OLC’s Latest Opinion Means for Congressional Oversight of the Private Sector by Andy Wright and Tara Ganapathy
• 9/11 Then and Now: How it Shapes Us 25 Years On by Just Security

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 8, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last Week on Just Security:

• The Looming Terrorist Threats to America by Matthew Levitt
• Cities as Nodes of Resistance by Jill Habig
• The Int’l Criminal Court as a “Strategic Weapon”: Legal Deterrence, Cognitive Advantage, and the Future of the Rule of Law
  By Yusuke Saito

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 4, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Why Countering the Assault on the International Criminal Court is Necessary to Protect the International Legal Order by Current and Former Presidents of the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court
• A Quarter Century After 9/11: Lessons Learned and Lost by Ambassador Daniel Fried

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 3, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• State Imperatives to Protect Civil Rights for All by Catherine E. Lhamon
• Civil Society Donors Should Heed the Risks of FATF Grey List-Induced Panic by James Savage
• America’s War on Drug Smugglers at Sea Is Unlawful—and It Is Failing by Stephen Chamberlin, Leanne Lusk and Brian McNamara
  
  
  

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 2, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• What the Presumption of Regularity’s Erosion Means for Challenges to Executive Action by Jordan Ascher

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on September 1, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Expert Backgrounder: What to Watch for at This Week’s Pivotal International Meeting on Autonomous Weapons by Jessica Thibodeau
• The Bipartisan Iran War Commission We Need by Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 31, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last week on Just Security

• U.S. Supreme Court’s Rejection of the “Presumption of Regularity” by Ryan Goodman and Jake Morganstein-Foley
• Collateral Accountability: The Oldest Check on Federal Lawlessness by Fred O. Smith, Jr.
• A Sentence in Damascus and An Accused in Moscow: The Limits of Syria’s First Attempt at Accountability by Fadel Abdulghany and Kenneth Roth

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 28, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• AI-Cyber Operations: A New Frontier for Public-Private Partnerships by Theo Bearman
• Why the Trump Administration is Pushing States to Quit the ICC, and How Member States Can Push Back by Adam Keith and Nina Moraitou-Politzi

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 27, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• States Can Fight Federal Overreach by Protecting State Data by Steven J. Kochevar
• Experts Declare International Law Principles Supporting Women’s Resistance to Gender Apartheid by Hannah Garry, Karima Bennoune, Zarqa Yaftali, and Zubaida Akbar
• Domestic and Regional Pressures Strain Ethiopia’s Fragile Peace by Lesley Anne Warner

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 26, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Is Trump pushing Iceland into the EU?
  By Erlingur Erlingsson
• “Can We Do This?”: The Role of Military Leaders and Their Legal Advice
  By Daniel Maurer
• The UAE’s Responsibility for Atrocities in Sudan
  By Jenny Maddocks
  
  
  

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 25, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Expert Backgrounder: Military Justice in the Israel Defense Forces by Michael Schmitt
• Liberia’s Long-Awaited War Crimes Court: Momentum – and Risks by Michelle Reyes Milk
• Sword of the People: The Power of Grand Juries to Investigate Administration Corruption by Bruce Swartz, Kit Beyer, John David Cobb, and Riler Holcombe

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 24, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• When the President Does It … by Michael Dreeben
• Commandeering, Coercion, and Executive Power by Jessica Bulman-Pozen

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 21, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• New International Criminal Court Sanctions and the Threat to U.S. Democracy by Lisa Davis
• Introduction to “Fight Back: How States Can Counter Authoritarianism” Series by Erwin Chemerinsky and Aziz Z. Huq
• The Road to Dismantling the ICC Runs Through Tokyo by Mieczysław (Mietek) Boduszyński and Christopher K. Lamont

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 20, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• The U.S. Government Must Preserve the Soft Power of Its Sanctions by Anton Moiseienko

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 19, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• The Government’s Unexplained Reversal on Social Media Disclosure Requirements by Nicola Morro 
• The Trump Administration’s Use of State Power Against Media: Keeping Track of the Big Picture by Rebecca Hamilton
• Amid the Open-Source AI Debate, America Needs a New Theory of Technological Power by Michael Schiffer

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 18, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• No Warrant, No Problem: Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine by Ayoub and Hannah James
• Test, Standardize, Restrict: A U.S. Policy for Chinese AI Models
  by Daniel Remler
• Convening Before the Crisis: The Case for a Standing Public-Private National Security Forum
  by Mike Schoengold Beatty

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 17, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• U.S. Tech Companies Owe a Duty of Care to Afghan Girls Too – of a Different Kind by Ibtissam Bouachrine
• Four Things State and Local Prosecutors Can Do to Combat Federal Corruption by Alison Hirsh and Justin Florence
• A System Working: Five Years On, the Taliban Still Doesn’t Have a Seat at the U.N. by Ambassador Nasir A. Andisha

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 14, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• For Women and Girls in Afghanistan, Now Is the Moment to Make CEDAW’s Promise Meaningful by Natasha Arnpriester
• Congress Needs a Select Committee That Focuses on Trump Family Corruption by Casey Michel
• Iran’s Conditions for Reopening Hormuz: What International Law Requires, Permits, and Forbids by Michael Schmitt

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 13, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Free Speech, Immigration Law, and Truth Telling at UCLA Law’s Recent Federalist Society Event by Ahilan Arulanantham
• Deference Should Follow Expertise, Not Pretext by Yuvraj S. Tuli

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 12, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Reinvention Blueprint No. 1: A Government That Works for People by Amira Boland and Tara McGuinness
• Reinvention Blueprint No. 2: Democracy Works When Government Works by Loren DeJonge Schulman and Rob Shriver

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 11, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Aggregating Illegality: The Accumulation of Events Doctrine in Contemporary Challenges by Asaf Lubin and O. Y.
• Building Governing Machinery for the Next Pro-Democracy Moment by K. Sabeel Rahman and Sam Berger
• Welcome to Just Security’s Reinvention Blueprints by Just Security
  
  
  
  

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 10, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• The Trump Administration Throws Gulf AI a Lifeline by Andrew Leber, Alasdair Phillips-Robins and Sam Winter-Levy
• Challenging Toxic Air Exemptions – and a Pattern of Executive Overreach on Regulatory Rollbacks by Sarah Buckley

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 7, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• China’s First AI Companion Rules Draw a New Line Between Tools and Relationships by Mollie Feng
• A Rule-of-Law Model for Governing AI Risks: The Global Significance of Canada’s New AI Strategy by Craig Martin and Michael J. Kelly
• The Scope of Executive Privilege: Unpacking the D.C. Circuit’s Latest Decision by Andy Wright and Tara Ganapathy

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 6, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Strategic Attack on Iran: Airpower’s Promises, Limits, and Lessons by Michael Schmitt
• U.N. Secretary-General Candidates May Agree More than They Differ on the Way Forward by Nudhara Yusuf, Justin Snyder, and Eirini Giannopoulou
• Bringing the State Department to the States: How a Domestic Service Requirement Would Strengthen American Foreign Policy by Matt Petit

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 5, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Antitrust Uncertainty and AI Security Collaboration: A Targeted Bipartisan Proposal by Tim Schnabel and Dan Crane
• Gender Apartheid and Public Opinion: Why Law Matters More Than Labels by Meghan M. Garrity and Joshua Schwartz

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 4, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Gender Apartheid and Public Opinion: Why Law Matters More Than Labels by Meghan M. Garrity and Joshua Schwartz
• Regulate, Don’t Ban, Chinese AI Models by Mark MacCarthy

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published August 3, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last Week on Just Security

• Ukraine’s Successes Make the Case for How Democracy Support Enhances U.S. National Security by Kevin Sheives and Andriy Shevchenko
• Reading the Signals of China’s U.N. Security Council Role in the Afghanistan Mission Renewal by Daniel Forti and Richard Gowan

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 31, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• The Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement: Return to the “Land for Peace”’ Formula
  By Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen
• AI in the Military Domain: Multilateralism at a Crossroad
  By Tobias Vestner and Simon Cleobury

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 30, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 29, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Effective Interviewing, Not Torture: Lessons from the Méndez Principles Five Years On by Juan E. Méndez and Steven J. Barela
• The Supreme Court’s Striking Regression on Partisan Gerrymandering by Trevor Potter and Paul Smith

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 28, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• After a Failed U.N. Counterterrorism Strategy Review, What Other Paths to Structural Reform? by Brian Kimari, Beth Alexion, and Kaleigh Homstad
• Authoritarians Keep Telling Us What They Fear. We Should Listen. by Scott Fisher, Graig Klein, Juris Pupcenoks, and Juste Codjo

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 27, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• The Future of the Int’l Criminal Court: What Follows After Removal of the Prosecutor by Rebecca Hamilton and Alex Whiting
• Counting the Votes in the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Decision by Marty Lederman
• The Pentagon’s Autonomous Weapons Definitions Don’t Need an Overhaul, They Need an Update by Noah Tan

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 24, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• When Civilian Infrastructure Becomes a Lawful Target by Michael Schmitt
• Genocide and Intent to Kill Revisited by Adil Ahmad Haque
• No, Trump Can’t Withhold Anti-Terrorism Funds to Pressure States to Change Their Election Rules by Reed Shaw

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 23, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• If Federal Courts Don’t Trust Trump’s DOJ, Should Civil Rights Funders? by Regan Rush, Megan Marks, and Dani Schulkin
• Why Gold Threatens Peace in South Sudan by Brian Adeba
• AI and Warrantless Foreign Intelligence Surveillance by Faiza Patel

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published July 22, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Trust, But Verify: Three Grand Jury Reforms to Hold the Government Accountable by Nathan Reilly
• AI and the Commercial Data Loophole by Faiza Patel
• Clausewitz on Operation Epic Fury by Michael Schmitt