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The Foreign Policy Essay: A Better Response to the Foreign Fighter Threat
In January 2014, two French teenage boys ran away from their homes in Toulouse in search of adventure. Like a few hundred other young Frenchmen and over 2,000 Europeans, they looked for that adventure in... -
Seeking Consensus on AUMFs
[Cross-posted at Just Security] The three of us have coauthored an Op-Ed in Sunday’s Washington Post on the topic of congressional authorization for the use of force against ISIL and the 2001 AUMF. We ... -
Why Does the AUMF Debate Even Matter?
Midday yesterday, I ran into a prominent national security reporter on the street near Brookings. The conversation quickly turned, as conversations tend to turn in our circles in Washington these days, t... -
The .IR, .KP and .SY Domains Are "Safe"
A couple of months ago, I noted an interesting law suit brought by several victims of terrorist attacks. They had secured default money judgments against Iran, North Korea and Syria for those country’s a... -
CRS Analysis of AUMF Proposals
Via Secrecy News, I see that the CRS has summarized and analyzed the seven proposals in Congress for a New AUMF. -
The Legal Consequences of Islamic State + Al Qaeda Cooperation, and Implications for AUMF Reform
Deb Riechman at AP is reporting: Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ... -
The U.S.-China Climate “Deal” Does Less Than Has Been Hyped
I am (as I have previously noted) no expert on climate change. But reading the text of the much-vaunted U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change makes me think there is a large gap between how th... -
U.S. Delegation Asserts Article 16 of Convention Against Torture Applies Outside U.S. Territority in Certain Circumstances, but Law of Armed Conflict "Takes Precedence" In Situations of Armed Conflict
As previewed by Charlie Savage in the New York Times this morning, the U.S. delegation appeared before the Committee Against Torture in Geneva today and announced a modest but important change in the U.S. -
The Preamble to the ISIS AUMF
Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble. So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet. -
Wilson Center Event on ISIS and Congressional Authorization
Streaming video is below. As noted earlier, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) will give remarks on ISIS and congressional authorization; afterwards, Wilson Center Director and former Representative Jane Harman, ... -
A New AUMF, The Lame-Duck Session, and the Meaning of Sunset Clauses
Two quick reactions to John Bellinger’s post on a new ISIL AUMF: I agree that the new Congress and not the lame duck Congress is best suited to revise the 2001 AUMF (and, in my opinion, also to put the ... -
The Lame Duck Congress Should Not Sunset the 2001 AUMF
I am troubled that the two proposals for a new AUMF posted by my Lawfare colleagues (Jack, Bobby, Ben, and Matt) and by a group at Just Security -- while constructive -- would both repeal the 2001 AUMF. ...
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