In the lead up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies attempted a
delicate balancing act of diplomacy and deterrence.... MORE
Machine learning algorithms hold out the promise of making sense of vast quantities of information, detecting patterns, and identifying anomalies... MORE
My colleague Philip Zelikow has written a thoughtful response to my recent post on this site. I endorse much of what he says. In that post, I had... MORE
Pundits have reveled in the prospect of using the Russian central bank funds currently frozen by the U.S. Department of Treasury to make reparations... MORE
On November 30, 2021, the Biden administration announced that it would remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the Foreign... MORE
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had “disrupt[ed] a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network... MORE
Spurred by concerns about a Chinese-owned wind farm, Texas recently enacted the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act to prohibit companies and... MORE
Some who should know argue, and I find plausible, that among these aspects of AI, accumulation and organization of data sets is the most significant... MORE
This chapter analyzes the extraterritorial provision in the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and considers the arguments on both sides of the question... MORE
As presidents make ever more expansive claims of executive power, Congress’s ability and willingness to counter the executive is limited. That makes... MORE
When a state seeks to defend itself against a cyberattack, must it first identify the perpetrator responsible? The US policy of “defend forward” and... MORE
Attribution of cyberattacks requires identifying those responsible for bad acts, prominently including states, and accurate attribution is a crucial... MORE
Reason-giving plays an important role in our system of governance. Agencies provide public reasons when making rules so that individuals affected by... MORE
In recent years, legislative bodies such as the U.S. Congress and the U.K. Parliament have struggled to maintain a role for themselves in government... MORE
Debates about how best to check executive branch abuses of secrecy focus on three sets of actors that have access to classified information and that... MORE
