"Petrostates play an outsize role in world affairs. The largest producers of oil and natural gas are wealthy states that translate that wealth into influence. They start more wars and support violent proxies abroad. Oil-rich states prop up the global arms trade, but they also use their wealth...

This paper examines the constitutional theory behind the George W. Bush administration’s conduct of the ‘war on terror’. It concludes that the theory of the unitary executive is dangerous when it escalates to include ‘inherent’ presidential powers, as it so often has. Such a version of...