Diplomacy

When academics, business and law firm heads, and leaders of international associations like the ABILA defend the rule of law, those ripples can build into a wave of change.

Authorities for domestic use of the military are outdated and subject to abuse. This is a blueprint for a single modern statute, enforceable limits, and judicial review.

Cautionary tales show well-intentioned procedural requirements can tie up decisionmaking without meaningfully enhancing outcomes.

Member states must ensure that UN peacekeeping forces are prepared and equipped to deploy, mediate, protect civilians, and respond to global crises.

A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

The Privacy Act is ill-equipped to address contemporary privacy risks, much less to constrain an executive branch determined to use the data in its possession for new purposes.

The challenges facing the U.N. include recurrent financial shortfalls and political irrelevance to some of the world's major crises.

The United States is deporting third-country nationals to Equatorial Guinea despite its documented pattern of human rights abuses.

States should treat spyware governance as a top-tier political priority and work toward a binding, enforceable regulatory framework.

Just Security's Reinvention Blueprints series features expert proposals to rebuild U.S. government institutions so they serve the public and meet today's challenges.

As the first serious agreement between Lebanon and Israel stalls, Washington needs to restore reciprocity to the process.

States committed to the rule of law can use the International Criminal Court to maximize the cost of adversaries' military aggression.