International Law and U.S. Security Policy

Catalog description

The course examines the role of international law, U.S. foreign policy, and international institutions in responding to terrorism, crime, complex emergencies, disasters and crises. It analyzes the challenges and difficulties in achieving unified response and the administrative and legal barriers that must be overcome. The course discusses how U.S. laws and policies intersect with international norms and regimes in a US security context, including existing multinational treaties such as UNCLOS and the Antarctic Treaty System, International Cybercrime Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention or the Chemical Weapons Convention, and international humanitarian law. Particular attention is paid to privacy laws. The conflicts that are caused by disparate laws and policies will also be explored, as well as challenges to solutions.