Lee A. Casey

Essays

Security

Family Feud: The Law in War and Peace

| 05.01.07

American law treats terrorism like an act of war, not a crime. The fact that Europeans don’t doesn’t make their way better.

Security

Double-Red-Crossed

| 03.01.05

The International Committee of the Red Cross strains at the gnat of American unilateralism and swallows the camel of terrorist atrocities. Stop applauding.

Security

Leashing the Dogs of War

| 09.01.03

With regard to the laws of war, the United States and Europe now operate under completely different legal codes.

Society

The Rocky Shoals of International Law

| 12.01.00

International law is rapidly evolving a direction thaat threatens American sovereignty. With careful attention, however, the United States can mold the law to its advantage.

Commentary

Security

War and the Law(1)

| 03.26.08

 As the military campaign in Iraq continues, United States and other Coalition forces have scrupulously followed the applicable requirements of the laws and customs of war--despite the charges levied by the Iraqi leadership.

Security

Saddam, Nikita and Virtual Weapons of Mass Destruction:A Question of Threat Perception and Intelligence Assessment

| 06.11.03

The threat posed by Iraq's WMD programs was a key American justification for launching Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Security

A House Divided? War, Extradition, and the Atlantic Alliance, PART II

| 10.09.02

 The war on terrorism is not simply the disruption of terrorist plots and the detention of suspects.

Global Governance

A House Divided? War, Extradition and the Atlantic Alliance

| 10.02.02

When not publicly attacking the Bush Administration, European statesmen tend, at least on the quiet, to deprecate their American counterparts as the rude products of a "cowboy" culture.

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