by Maryam Jamshidi | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 15
Maryam Jamshidi[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Economic and trade sanctions are typically understood as the exclusive province of governments and intergovernmental organizations. Private parties have, however, long played a role in sanctions regimes....
by Kevin Jon Heller | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 15
Kevin Jon Heller[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] The idea that using “killer robots” in armed conflict is unacceptable because they are not human is at the heart of nearly every critique of autonomous weapons. Some of those critiques are...
by Oona A. Hathaway | May 20, 2023 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 14
Oona A. Hathaway[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] The last several decades have witnessed a dramatic decline in the capacity of the U.S. Congress to constrain the president’s unilateral decisions to send the United States to war. That erosion of...
by Kristina Daugirdas and Katerina Linos | May 20, 2023 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 14
by Kristina Daugirdas & Katerina Linos[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] In the early 2000s, small “coalitions of the willing,” flexible networks, and nimble private-public partnerships were promoted as alternatives to bureaucratic,...
by Justin Malzac | Apr 12, 2022 | Online Edition
Justin Malzac[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] “It’s always easier to stamp out a small ember than to put out a raging fire.” [1] — Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense Introduction Influence operations, including propaganda and psychological operations,...
