In this feature, Brookings senior fellow and terrorism expert Daniel Byman and deputy foreign policy editor Dana Stuster curate a weekly essay on foreign and military affairs of interest to national security legal practitioners and scholars. Although not specifically dealing with legal matters, the feature offers context and perspective to many of the debates that go on at the site regularly. Lawfare has always conceived of national security law broadly, because to practice it well, one needs to draw on a diversity of expertise in technical fields like communications technologies, robotics and economics. With The Foreign Policy Essay, Dan and Dana provide us with a window into the worlds of strategy, military operations, geopolitics, and whatever else grabs their interest on any given week.
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The United States needs to take the threat of prison radicalization seriously.
Do drone strikes really drive terrorist recruitment? Interviews with militants, tribal leaders, and Pakistani intelligence suggest it might not.
The July Crisis is a case study of leaders failing to critically reassess their assumptions.
Last Tuesday marked the twentieth anniversay of the referenda on the Good Friday Agreement. What can it teach us about conflict resolution?
It would be far too easy to get into a war with China. How would it end?
Foreign funding for local NGOs can amplify underrepresented perspectives. That makes countries more democratic, not less.
The Islamic State and its supporters can skirt content regulations with media that doesn't explicitly advocate terrorism. Is there more that can be done?
The United States should learn from other countries' proactive approaches to counterterrorism to meet its diverse extremist threats.
The new prime minister is the country’s first from the majority ethnic group, but Ethiopia’s real problems are embedded in its legislative structure.
Iran has paid a heavy price to prop up the Assad regime. It's finally paying off.