The United States is currently engaged in combat and counterinsurgency operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, with over 137,000 US soldiers on the ground in those two countries alone …

[T] he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when
they are wrong, are more powerful than is com-monly understood.... Madmen in authority …

On 14 April 1993, Kuwaiti authorities uncovered an assassination plot against former US
President George Bush.[1] This plot was to be carried out against President Bush during a …

On October 7, 2001, the United States and the United Kingdom launched operation
Enduring Freedom. Enduring Freedom was a massive aerial and land operation on the …

The laws of war forbid states to use force against each other except in self-defense or with
the authorization of the United Nations Security Council. Self-defense is usually understood …

The subject of my report is the problem of self-defense and how to reconcile the right of self
defense with the law of naval warfare at sea. It seems that the first question scholars have to …

Current non-proliferation treaties and norms lack sufficient legal justification for attacking
nuclear facilities being built by states that would illegally develop nuclear weapons. States …

Imagine that you are assaulted by a person threatening you with deadly force. May you
lawfully respond, in turn, with deadly force? You don't yet know enough facts to determine …

While Perry did not elaborate on the idea, its logic is compelling. An adversary considering
the development of such weapons will have less incentive if it is aware that its effort …

In the world legal order that emerged after World War II and was codified in the UN Charter ("
Charter"), states are prohibited from committing aggression against other states.'If a state is …