Foreign Relations & International Law

Lawfare is suing to bring transparency back to international agreements—and you can help.

AI training data built by U.S. firms is being sold to Chinese labs and powering their models. U.S. policymakers can use existing law to stop these sales.

China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency.

A tool built to block Huawei and Hikvision now bans drones, routers, and solar inverters—undermining the security it was meant to protect.

Strategies built to disrupt cyber adversaries may impose costs but are unlikely to lead to long-term stability.

The Kingdom of Bahrain cannot claim immunity from a suit by exiled dissidents over harm caused by spyware surveillance on U.K. soil.

By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.

A review of Kevin Arlyck, “The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825” (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

It is a global model for its domestic, not international, legal origins. Future peace may be the real cost of de la Espriella’s attacks.