Reports
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War Powers: What Are They Good For?
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Congressional aspirations to equal partnership in the conduct of American conflicts have long gone unsatisfied....
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Stephen Tankel
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Working Case Study: Congress’s Oversight of the Tongo Tongo, Niger, Ambush
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There was no question that U.S. forces under attack should be in a position to defend themselves. But the larger question was what sort of mission had placed them in this circ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Working Case Study: Congress and the Iraq Surge
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The intensive campaign employed by John McCain and his allies is an important case of how members of Congress can influence executive decisions on the conduct of military oper...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Working Case Study: Congressional Influence on the Decision to Intervene in Somalia
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, television news did not drive U.S. policy toward Somalia; U.S. lawmakers provided the impetus and credibility for coverage....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Congress’s Hidden Strengths
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Introduction On matters of peace and war, virtually no one seems satisfied with Congress. Constitutionally coequal to the executive, the Congress often appears more an uneasy ...
By Richard Fontaine & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Intelligence Transparency and Foreign Threats to Elections
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The threat of malign foreign interference in the campaign season and election system looms....
By Carrie Cordero
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Rebooting Congressional Cybersecurity Oversight
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The current “patchwork” legal framework is ill suited to address cybersecurity questions either for legislative oversight or effective policymaking....
By Carrie Cordero & David Thaw
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Rising to the China Challenge
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The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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Enhancing Congressional Intelligence Committee Effectiveness
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In a new working paper, Carrie Cordero provides a fresh assessment regarding whether the intelligence committees in Congress need significant structural reforms, assesses whic...
By Carrie Cordero
