Overpowered: Restraining Presidential War Authority

Brian Finucane, senior adviser at International Crisis Group, and Brianna Rosen, Senior Fellow at Just Security, discuss how the Global War on Terror is still ongoing and has allowed the executive branch to usurp war making authority from Congress, with disastrous and illiberal results.Show NotesBrianna Rosen bioBrian Finucane bio“Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror,” Crisis Group Report No. 5, September 17, 2021.Brian Finucane, “Still at War: The United States in the Sahel,” Just Security, April 7, 2022.Brian Finucane, “Assessing Biden’s New Policy Framework for Counterterrorism Direct Action,” Just Security, October 11, 2022.Brianna Rosen, “Ending Perpetual War,” Just Security, October 25, 2022.Tess Bridgeman and Brianna Rosen, “Introduction to Symposium: Still at War – Where and Why the United States is Fighting the ‘War on Terror,’” Just Security, March 24, 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.