by David A. Koplow | May 19, 2024 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 15
David A. Koplow [*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] The most exciting and far-reaching contemporary developments regarding human activities in outer space arise from the recent drastic reductions in the costs of building, launching, and operating...
by Katniss Xuejiao Li | May 19, 2024 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 15
Katniss Xuejiao Li[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] This Article proposes and develops a concept of performative economic sanctions, challenging the traditional notion that sanctions must inflict eco- nomic harm to be effective. It examines the...
by Maryam Jamshidi | Dec 15, 2023 | 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 | 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 | 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...