The International Security issue area addresses the role of international law and international institutions in promoting and sustaining international peace and security by focusing on legal issues related to the use of force, peacekeeping and stability operations, conflict resolution, and post-conflict reconstruction. It also encompasses the legal responses to security threats posed by failing and fragile states, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational crime, and terrorism.

Publications

Will the WTO Finally Tackle Corruption in Public Purchasing? The Revised Agreement on Government Procurement
Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer
April 15, 2013

Economic Cyber Espionage and International Law: Controversies Involving Government Acquisition of Trade Secrets through Cyber Technologies
David P. Fidler
March 20, 2013

International Law Issues in the Department of Justice White Paper on Targeted Killing
David Kaye
February 15, 2013

China’s Straight Baseline Claim: Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands
J. Ashley Roach
February 13, 2013

The Law That Applies to Autonomous Weapon Systems
Jeffrey S. Thurnher
January 18, 2013

The World Court Awards Sovereignty Over Several Islands in the Caribbean Sea to Colombia and Fixes a Single Maritime Boundary between Colombia and Nicaragua
Pieter Bekker
January 11, 2013

• Assange and the Law of Diplomatic Relations By Alison Duxbury, ASIL Insights, October 11, 2012
• The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty: Temporarily Holstered By Aaron Fellmeth, ASIL Insights, September 20, 2012
• Recent Developments and Revelations Concerning Cybersecurity and Cyberspace: Implications for International Law By David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, June 20, 2012
• Transit Passage Rights in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Threats to Block the Passage of Oil Tankers By Nilufer Oral, ASIL Insights, May 3, 2012
• Fishing in Troubled Waters - Somalia’s Maritime Zones and the Case for Reinterpretation By Thilo Neumann and Tim René Salomon, ASIL Insights, March 15, 2012
• Risky Research and Human Health: The Influenza H5N1 Research Controversy and International Law By David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, January 19, 2012
• September 11 Inspired Aviation Counter-Terrorism Convention and Protocol Adopted
  By Damien van der Toorn, ASIL Insights, January 26, 2011
• Suppressing Maritime Piracy: Exploring the Options in International Law A Workshop Report By Elizabeth Andersen, Benjamin Brockman-Hawe, Patricia Goff.
• The European Court of Justice Kadi Decision and the Future of UN Counterterrorism Sanctions By Peter Fromuth, ASIL Insights, October 30, 2009.
• Who can be detained in the "War on Terror"? The Emerging Answer By Faiza Patel, ASIL Insights, October 20, 2009.
• African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Force: What Next for Diego Garcia? By Peter H. Sand, ASIL Insights, August 28, 2009.
• Is Bagram the New Guantánamo? Habeas Corpus and Maqaleh v. Gates By Kal Raustiala, ASIL Insights, June 18, 2009.
• The Torture Memos and Accountability By Allen S. Weiner, ASIL Insights, May 15, 2009.
• International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia By Eugene Kontorovich, ASIL Insights, February 6, 2009.
• U.S. Policy Toward the International Criminal Court: Furthering Positive Engagement By ASIL Task Force Members William H. Taft (co-chair), Patricia M. Wald (co-chair), Mickey Edwards, Michael A. Newton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen M. Schwebel, David Tolbert, Ruth Wedgwood, and Project Director Laura M. Olson, March 2009.
• Colombia's Use of Force in Ecuador Against a Terrorist Organization: International Law and the Use of Force Against Non-State Actors By Tatiana Waisberg, ASIL Insights, August 22, 2008.
• The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Taking Stock after the May 2008 Preparatory Committee Meeting By Lisa Tabassi and Jacqueline Leahey, ASIL Insights, June 30, 2008.
• North Korean Links to Building of a Nuclear Reactor in Syria: Implications for International Law
  By Daniel Joyner, ASIL Insights, April 28, 2008.
• Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj et al.: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Threshold of Non-International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law By Anthony Cullen and Marko Divac Öberg, ASIL Insights, April 23, 2008.
• Russia Suspends CFE Treaty Participation By Duncan B. Hollis, ASIL Insights, July 23, 2007.
• International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism Enters into Force
  By David P. Fidler, ASIL Insights, July 5, 2007.
• Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions By Jane Stromseth, David Wippman and Rosa Brooks, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Trade as Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security? By Padideh Ala'I, Tomer Broude, Colin Picker, eds., Studies in Transnational Legal Policy Series, 2006.

Events, Seminars, Conferences

• The United Nations Law of the Sea Convention: Should It Be Ratified? (April 16, 2008)
• "Outsourcing War and Peace," Presentation by Professor Laura Dickinson, University of Connecticut (March 27, 2008)
• When the Fighting Stops: Roles and Responsibilities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction (November 2, 2007)

Research Tools

• EISIL Resources on International Criminal Law
• EISIL Resources on the Use of Force
• Electronic Resource Guide: International Criminal Law