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I flippantly said in the beginning of this blog and my journey as freelance writer, that I dreamt of reading the biographies of all US presidents. In order. Low and behold, I started. Why not. [...]

I tweeted that I wouldn’t write anything about the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) regarding the shooting down of flight MH17 released yesterday. However, with so much focus on the [...]

If we move on from my previous article, and accept that international law is, well, important and relevant, we can venture into more dangerous territory: a case study that seems to defy my own [...]

In a sense, it is a daily struggle. Trying to thread the needle. Convince people. How to square international law with global power politics, or a Realpolitik. Recently, I had an interesting [...]

[Warning: long read] This was a tough one. Shadi Hamid’s book ’Islamic Exceptionalism‘ is about one of the most pressing issues of the day  It cannot really be reviewed in a few hundred or [...]

Ever since starting this blog, I have wanted start writing short biographical articles about people that interest me. Of course, these people are mostly related to law. Some have come and gone, [...]

Foreign policy and national security is at the forefront of the US Presidential Election this year. Publicly, the focus has been on two simple things. One, Donald Trump’s knowledge of and [...]

No, not talking about illegal downloads or medical patent infringement. Just the modern, and less fun version of Jack Sparrow. Armed  robbery on the high seas. See Captain Phillips. I was aware [...]

This is going to be a short book review I think. First, I’m on vacation. Second, this book – ‘JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA and the Sino-Indian War’ – by Bruce Reidel, [...]