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.
Latest in Foreign Policy Essay
The strike on Qassem Soleimani will weaken an international ban that has been an advantage to powerful states like the United States.
Law-enforcement and counterterrorism agencies need to recognize a real and growing threat.
The administration's decision-making process seems as broken today as when the president entered office.
New rivalries among the Gulf states and beyond are redefining the region.
The NBA, and the world, should take a firmer stance against China's use of economic coercion to try to silence critical international voices.
What will happen to the foreign fighters who traveled to Iraq and Syria to combat the Islamic State?
Finding the grains of truth in the French president's controversial assessment of NATO.
How did the small island nation wind up with one of the highest rates of recruitment for the Islamic State?
Threats new and old, at home and from abroad.
Democrats and Republicans alike should prioritize responding to interference from Beijing, imposing additional sanctions on malign actors, closing financial loopholes, raising standards for technology companies and improving election security.