This week we're covering the range of national security related topics that have been making headlines. Host Elisa is joined by Bill Banks to discuss the latest impacts of climate change, Ukraine's comeback, China's elections, and looking back on 21 years since the attacks on 9/11. And stick around towards the end of the episode for NSLT's latest book recommendations!

Bill Banks is Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and Emeritus Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law:

http://law.syr.edu/profile/william-banks1

References:

Register for the 32nd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference – The Past, Present and Future: Celebrating 60 Years of the Standing Committee on Law and National Security – November 17th–18th, 2022:

https://web.cvent.com/event/587890d9-7f23-4662-af87-6f106dedfece/summary

The National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/NIE_Climate_Change_and_National_Security.pdf

The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF):

https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf

The Patriot Act:

https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ56/PLAW-107publ56.pdf

Fisher, Max. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World. Little, Brown, 2023:

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/max-fisher/the-chaos-machine/9780316703314/

Singer, P. W., and Emerson T. Brooking. Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

https://www.likewarbook.com

Canellos, Peter S. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Great-Dissenter/Peter-S-Canellos/9781501188213

Wallach, Ari. Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs: An Antidote for Short-Termism. HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.

https://www.longpath.org/book

Feingold, Russ, and Peter Prindiville. The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It. PublicAffairs, 2022.

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/russ-feingold/the-constitution-in-jeopardy/9781541701526/

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