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 signing of the U.N. Charter 75 years ago has changed not only the number of wars between states, but how they have been fought.
Emerging trends in terrorist attacks will present new challenges for agencies working to prevent them.
Are there opportunities to wind down fighting with some terrorist groups in the region?
China has led the aid response to the coronavirus crisis in Africa. The United States should step up.
The State Department's decision to add Cuba to the Not Fully Cooperating Country list could signal a more aggressive policy.
China has tried to build goodwill with its "mask diplomacy," but its efforts are backfiring.
The organization's leader was arrested, then his successor. Now it will try to regroup.
While other countries have intervened with force, China has taken a cautious approach to preserve its options.
The pandemic is the most immediate in a set of crises—some new, some ignored for too long—to which the international community cannot adequately respond.
The tensions between the United States and China aren't going anywhere, but there is still room to work together.