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Texas, Military Federalism, and the Southern Border
Interstate support for Texas’s border operations underscore states’ meaningful, but limited, independent authority to deploy military personnel for domestic operations. -
Verification Is Possible: Checking Compliance With an Autonomous Weapon Ban
Secure records can help prove that attacks by armed uncrewed vehicles were conducted under human control. -
Peak Economic Security? The Securitization of U.S.-China Economic Relations and Rethinking Resilience
The U.S. must better balance its coercive economic security measures with constructive policies that underscore the benefits of new and sustainable forms of interdependence. -
Chatter: Why Foreign Policy Elites Matter with Elizabeth Saunders
What influence does the "blob" actually have on foreign policy making? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Paul Beckett on the Evan Gershkovich Case
Discussing Evan Gershkovish's year long detention in Russia -
Ukraine’s Artillery Shell Shortfall
The price of peace and how Ukraine’s allies have failed to deliver munitions. -
A President and His Justices
A review of Cliff Sloan, “The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made” (PublicAffairs, 2023) -
The ICJ’s Modified Provisional Measures Order in South Africa v. Israel
The Court’s March 28 order finds that the exponentially deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza constitute a change in the situation and warrant additional measures. -
Nuremberg's Regrettable Sibling: The Contradictions of the Tokyo Tribunal
A review of Gary Bass, "Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023) -
The Lawfare Podcast: Asylum-Seekers and the EU Migration Pact
How is asylum and migration law evolving globally? -
The False Promise of Nuclear Deterrence for Postwar Ukrainian Security
Postwar Ukraine should avoid tying its security to nuclear weapons—its own or NATO’s—instead ensuring its conventional forces are robust and defensively oriented. -
Has New START Reached a Dead End?
Russia’s New START violations have raised the risk of breaching its central limits. The political conflict underlying them could bring about the treaty’s end.