Beckie Schatschneider's articles on Law & Public Policy Program

Western Withdrawal: Implications of the Runet’s Chinese Trajectory and the West’s Response to Foreign Cyber Threats

November 6, 2019November 4, 2019

Alexander Rojavin, Law & Policy Scholar, JD Anticipated May 2020 On October 19, Kremlin press secretary and hand watch enthusiast Dmitry Peskov announced that the country was not “technologically ready for a sovereign Runet,” even though in April, the Duma (the Russian parliament) passed by 307 votes to 68 the final version of a law that would isolate the Runet—the Russian segment of the internet—from the rest of the world. Per the law, beginning on November 1, the Russian analogue …

Patience and Time: A Defense of America’s Involvement in the Middle East

October 30, 2019October 28, 2019

Peter Konchak, Law & Public Policy Scholar, JD Anticipated May 2021 “You have the watches. We have the time.” So goes an insurgent’s aphorism about the alleged futility of his adversary’s campaign against him. The statement bears some truth: since the onset of the first modern counterinsurgency campaigns waged by the European great powers during the “second age of imperialism,” attrition has been recognized as a means by which guerillas may defeat great powers. In this paradigm, the objective of …

Zelensky’s Rhetorical Policy in the Face of Putino-Trumpian Disinformation

January 13, 2020October 20, 2019

Alexander Rojavin, Law & Public Policy Scholar, JD Anticipated May 2020 Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has confirmed what we already knew—that in an act of policymaking staggeringly harmful to the United States’ interests, the White House froze nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine unless Ukraine’s young administration helped fabricate a case against former Vice President Joe Biden. (No, it had nothing to do with Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s reviled former attorney general who got the …

The Death of Republican Obstructionism?

November 22, 2016

Dean Krebs, Law & Public Policy Scholar, JD anticipated May 2018 Unified obstruction has been the sole Republican strategy since President Obama took office. According to David Frum, speech writer for former President George W. Bush, there was going to be “[n]o negotiations, no compromise, nothing” with the Democrats. All that mattered, former Ohio Senator George Voinovich stated, was that “[i]f [Obama] was for it, we had to be against it.” A couple years after Obama took office, Mike Lofgren, …

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