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The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Privacy and Europocrisy Oversight Board

Stewart Baker   Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 9:05 AM

This is my favorite story of the episode. David Kris covers a report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on the enormous value that European governments get in fighting terrorism from the same American surveillance programs that European institutions have been fighting for twenty years to shut down. It’s a delightful takedown of European virtue-signaling, and I hope the Biden Administration gives the PCLOB a new name and mission in honor of the report.

Foreign Policy Essay

Losing Control Over Returnees?

Thomas Renard, Rik Coolsaet   Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: Perhaps the biggest counterterrorism challenge facing European states is how to handle their citizens who went to fight in Iraq and Syria and now seek to return. Europe's response has been muddled, with many states reluctant to take responsibility for their nationals yet not advancing an alternative policy. Thomas Renard and Rik Coolsaet of the Egmont Institute assess the problems European states face and outline ways to make the return of foreign fighters less risky and more sustainable.

Daniel Byman

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Russia and Eastern Europe

Heading for (Another) Ukraine-Russia Gas Fight?

Steven Pifer   Fri, Sep 6, 2019, 9:00 AM

Editor’s Note: The article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.

Twice in the past 14 years, a dispute between Ukraine and Russia has led Russia to cut off natural gas flows to Ukraine and Europe. The stage is being set for another cut-off in January. The European Union wants to ensure that gas continues to flow, so EU officials will attempt at a mid-September meeting to broker an agreement. But they face a difficult slog.

Foreign Policy Essay

Drawing the Line on U.S. Reassurance to Eastern Europe

Sara Bjerg Moller   Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: The United States is considering deploying permanent forces to Poland to signal the U.S. security commitment to that country. Such a move would be a massive strategic shift and one that raises many questions. Sara Bjerg Moller of Seton Hall assesses this move and argues that the deployment would not solve Poland's fundamental security problems but would create risks for the United States.

Daniel Byman

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