The U.S. legal system is known as the envy of the world. Yet law as an instrument of national power has been woefully understudied. Traditional academic frameworks for studying the instruments of national power do not consider the full potential of law to be used as a weapon of war between states, a concept known… Continue reading Information Lawfare: Messaging and the Moral High Ground
Category: Foreign Policy
Lessons for the Next Twenty Years: What We’ve Learned in the Two Decades Since 9/11
LESSONS FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS: WHAT WE’VE LEARNED IN THE TWO DECADES SINCE 9/11 A Note from Editor-in-Chief William C. Banks By any measure the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 brought an immediate laser focus to the phenomenon of international terrorism. Though hardly new to… Continue reading Lessons for the Next Twenty Years: What We’ve Learned in the Two Decades Since 9/11
JNSLP Symposium—Shifting the Great Power Competition: Emerging and Continuing Threats with China, with Jim Steinberg
The Journal of National Security Law and Policy hosted its 2021 annual symposium this week, featuring a keynote discussion with James Steinberg, former US Deputy Secretary of State and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law at Syracuse University. Steinberg and James Feinerman, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, sit down to discuss… Continue reading JNSLP Symposium—Shifting the Great Power Competition: Emerging and Continuing Threats with China, with Jim Steinberg