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 organization's narrow focus on armed conflict has limited its options and appeal at times, but it may now be its greatest strength.
The United States has tried to shift its foreign policy focus from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific for two decades. Will Biden finally succeed?
Protests and riots in response to the new post-Brexit customs border have raised fears about renewed sectarian violence.
Despite rumors of bin Laden's successor's death, the organization remains resilient.
Newly released documents provide additional insights about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's successor as leader of the Islamic State.
Tools developed to combat terrorist financing over the past two decades can be adapted to the growing transnational threat.
There are concrete steps the Biden administration can take to check Russia and China's actions and arrest democratic backsliding.
The arrangement can be tense and transactional, but has provided benefits for both sides.
The clear threat of right-wing extremism demonstrates the need for a broad-based approach to CVE.
Best practices drawn from three decades of research on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.