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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How community social cohesion shapes population displacement, one of today’s greatest global challenges.
Domestic terrorism legislation is still useful—even if Jan. 6 rioters have been prosecuted without a federal law on the books.
Can the liberal international order survive the strategy to save it?
The country has shown more partisanship in war in Ukraine than in any conflict in recent memory, but its policy of neutrality remains popular at home.
Policymakers and cable industry insiders disagree about the threats to critical infrastructure and how to address them, but greater dialogue could help.
The Islamic State and other groups are experimenting with using drones and may be close to weaponizing them.
U.S. advisers know that partner militaries disregard their training, but are rarely willing to address the reasons why.
Personalist leaders present unique challenges for deterrence.
Putin has cultivated ties with a network of far-right actors at the fringes of European politics.
The evidence continues to point to the Huanan Market. The ongoing debate, though, is fueling bad policy.