Articles Starving the Beast: A New Vetting Model to Prevent Corruption in International Security Sector Assistance By Nahal Kazemi In 2021, the United States government identified countering corruption as a core national security interest for the first time. However, corrupt police and military forces supported by the United States in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, and…

Nahal Kazemi* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract In 2021, the United States government identified countering corruption as a core national security interest for the first time. However, corrupt police and military forces supported by the United States in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, actively undermine security and reveal a…

Anu Bradford,* Eileen Li,** & Matthew C. Waxman*** [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The United States (U.S.), China, and the European Union (EU) are engaged in a national security-driven economic competition over advanced technology. Many scholars and commentators focus on the external dimension of this geopolitical contest; that is, they…

Crispin Smith* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The United States military and intelligence communities are sounding the alarm about the escalating risk of interstate conflict with the People’s Republic of China. China is already a premier practitioner of “lawfare” in the context of interstate competition, but the impact of Chinese…

Articles Protecting the U.S. National Security State from a Rogue President By Laura A. Dickinson The presidency of Donald Trump revealed weaknesses in the U.S. constitutional structure and its legal rules, weaknesses that had been covered over for most of our history because presidents of all political parties voluntarily obeyed norms of behavior that kept…