Starving the Beast: A New Vetting Model to Prevent Corruption in International Security Sector Assistance

by Nahal Kazemi | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 16

Nahal Kazemi* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract In 2021, the United States government identified countering corruption as a core national security interest for the first time. However, corrupt police and military forces supported by the United...

How Domestic Institutions Shape the Global Tech War

by Anu Bradford, Eileen Li and Matthew C. Waxman | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 16

Anu Bradford,* Eileen Li,** & Matthew C. Waxman*** [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The United States (U.S.), China, and the European Union (EU) are engaged in a national security-driven economic competition over advanced technology. Many...

Chinese Lawfare in Conflict: The Threat to U.S. Operations

by Crispin Smith | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 16

Crispin Smith* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The United States military and intelligence communities are sounding the alarm about the escalating risk of interstate conflict with the People’s Republic of China. China is already a premier...

Volume 16, Issue 1

by Harvard National Security Journal | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured, Main Articles, Volume 16

Articles Protecting the U.S. National Security State from a Rogue President By Laura A. Dickinson The presidency of Donald Trump revealed weaknesses in the U.S. constitutional structure and its legal rules, weaknesses that had been covered over for most of our history...

Protecting the U.S. National Security State from a Rogue President

by Laura A. Dickinson | Jan 12, 2025 | Main Articles, Volume 16

Laura A. Dickinson* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract The presidency of Donald Trump revealed weaknesses in the U.S. constitutional structure and its legal rules, weaknesses that had been covered over for most of our history because presidents of...

Chip Security: Reconciling Industrial Subsidies with WTO Rules and National Security Exception

by "Mark" Min Seong Kim | Jan 12, 2025 | Main Articles, Volume 16

“Mark” Min Seong Kim* [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Abstract Justified as a national security law, the CHIPS and Science Act (“CHIPS Act”) channels an unprecedented $53 billion federal investment to reshore semiconductor production and...