September 11, 2001, stands as a critical pivot point in our nation’s history, one that put the threat of terrorism in the national spotlight and demanded immediate expertise in national security.
Robert Williams and Anne Siders Click here to read the full Editors’ Preface “National security” has become a powerful watchword for politicians, lawyers, policy makers, and academics alike. Invocation of the “national security” label typically aims to signal that the issue under discussion is of the highest priority for public policy. And yet, when we, as students of national security law, proposed the creation of a journal dedicated to national security, one of the first questions posed to us was: How do you define national security? What is it, exactly? In the middle of the twentieth century, the National Security
