The editors of the JST are pleased to offer for downloading the Fall 2024 print issue. It features analysis of the foreign policy differences emerging from the presidential campaign as well as other significant issues.
Fall 2024, Print Issue No. 11: Trump vs. Harris: Diverging Paths.
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September 2024
Recent Articles
Israel’s Legal Rights to Self-Protect and to Punish Terrorists
By the fundamental principle known formally under international law as a jus cogens (“compelling law”) rule, each state is required to assist other states imperiled by terror-violence. The most important historical figures in creating and explaining this requirement were the Swiss jurist Emmerich de Vattel and the English jurist William Blackstone. Blackstone’s Commentaries became the […]
The Middle East at a Moment of Strategic Choice
Some media commentators were quick to dismiss Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting this week with President Donald J. Trump, depicting it as driven by domestic politics, legal pressures, or media optics. But that is a mistake. This meeting comes at a time of profound regional fragility and converging pressures. On one front lies Iran’s aggressive […]
The Timely Death of a US Navy Frigate Program
In late November, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan canceled the increasingly challenged Constellation-class frigate program. The Constellation was to be built as a modified version of the European multipurpose frigate, designed by Naval Group (a French company) and Fincantieri (an Italian company with shipyards in Wisconsin). Only two of the planned six frigates, already […]
