Issues > International Security
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
- 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)
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