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Intervention in Syria: Illegal yet Legitimate?

“[M]any policymakers care more about legitimacy than legality, particularly if there are no concrete legal consequences to action.” David Kaye writes in Foreign Affairs about the legal consequences (or...

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Does “Backing Down” Hurt Deterrence?

If the U.S. backs down in Syria, will that affect the views of adversaries and allies about our willingness to use force in the future?  Common sense would suggest yes, but Dylan Matthews points out...

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Bruce Schneier on the Limitations of Intelligence

Noting reports that U.S. intelligence agencies may have had warning that Syria was about to use chemical weapons, Bruce Schneier discusses the limitations of intelligence gathering in a very thought...

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The Challenge of Enforcing the U.S.-Russia Deal on Syria Chemical Weapons

Amy Smithson has an interesting essay at Foreign Affairs that discusses the very practical challenges to enfrocing the U.S.-Russia agreement on Syrian chemical weapons: The U.S.-Russian agreement is an...

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A United Nations Comeback?

Michael Hirsh, chief correspondent for National Journal, argues in a piece for The Atlantic entitled “Why the UN Matters This Time” that, as a result of recent international developments regarding Iran...

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A New Just War Theory?

At the new national security law blog, Just Security, legal theorist David Luban has posted a thoughtful piece contending that the way that the domestic and international debates about possible...

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Harold Koh on Syria & International Law

In an interesting post last week for Just Security, Harold Honju Koh argued that “President Obama did not violate international law by threatening to use force in Syria in the face of a persistent...

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Explaining the OPCW

Earlier this week, Faiza Patel provided an informative piece over at Opinio Juris about the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the newly-famous organization at the center of...

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Waxman on the Power to Credibly Threaten War

Matthew Waxman has a new essay for the Yale Law Journal, entitled Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers, in which he argues that debates about the respective war powers held by the...

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Nearing Prime Time for US’s Chemical Weapon-Destroying Ship

Earlier this week, Foreign Policy offered a fascinating look at the U.S. ship and crew expected to destroy approximately 700 tons of Syrian chemical weapons in the near future: In the next few weeks,...

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