by Oona A. Hathaway | May 20, 2023 | 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 Alden A. Fletcher | May 20, 2023 | Main Articles, Volume 14
Alden A. Fletcher[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] The resurgence of private militias claiming the protection of the Second Amendment raises a startling question: is the United States a country without a legal monopoly on the use of force? Perhaps not....
by Andrew Huang | Feb 13, 2022 | Online Edition
Andrew Huang[*] [This article is available in PDF at this link] I. Introduction In May 2013, at a remote firing range deep in central Texas, there was silence. Then, a sharp crack reverberated across the prairieland as engineers led by then-25-year-old Cody Wilson...