Strauss Center Director-Designate Bobby Chesney has written an article in The New Republic titled Would Abandoning the War Model of Counterterrorism Make a Difference from a Legal Perspective? In it, he argues that while most conversations surrounding the tactics employed in the war on terror have focused on “whether and how long the war model might continue to exist,” these policies of detention and use of force might be little changed by formal abandonment of the war model.
Professor Chesney explores the legal precedents surrounding the policies utilized in this war model, an issue he will explore in more detail in his forthcoming article, Postwar, to be featured in the Harvard National Security Journal.
Francis J. Gavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently authored an article in Texas National Security Review, "What Exactly Are We Doing." In his article, he urges the U.S. to refocus its core strategic interests in the Middle East while calling for Americans to engage in respectful and passionate discourse on difficult foreign policy issues. "Smart, insightful people offer sharply...
The Strauss Center is recruiting three senior student associates to assist with reviewing data on the geography of violence in Latin America for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). ACLED is the world’s leading source of real-time political conflict data, providing detailed data on conflict patterns, actors, and dynamics in myriad countries around the world. This project is...
In his recent post for Lawfare, Strauss Center Director and James Baker Professor in Law, Bobby Chesney, provides a critical response to the White House’s October 6th, 2019 statement announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Northern Syria. Chesney first highlights some notable omissions from the White House statement—namely, the role of Kurdish coalition partners in the defeat of the Islamic State...