Foreign Relations & International Law

The United States has the authority and the justification to lift the last vestiges of U.S. sanctions. What it appears to lack is the will.

Beijing’s new rules make standard U.S. sanctions compliance illegal in China. Washington and allies must build structural defenses before a multinational firm is prosecuted.

Russia’s strike on Kyiv’s Chornobyl Museum was more than an attack on a civilian or cultural site; it targeted historical memory itself.

How one strike rewrote the law of leadership decapitation.

A review of “Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft,” Jon Lindsay (Cornell, 2025)

Civilian cameras are being hijacked in active conflicts. U.S. law freezes future imports but cannot touch the millions already deployed at home.

Indicting Raul Castro does not legally justify invading Cuba, contrary to the Justice Department’s flawed theory for the Venezuela invasion.

Africa’s data protection laws are halting billion-dollar U.S. health aid agreements. The same laws should be leveraged to renegotiate new terms.

A review of Simon Ball, “Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination” (Yale University Press, 2025).

When war is fought from permanent overseas bases, international law struggles to explain what host states may allow and what belligerents may lawfully strike.