Whilst President Donald Trump regularly displays a certain indifference towards the law, his administration cannot completely disregard it, lest it lose legitimacy and undermine its own political agenda. Far from ignoring it, the US executive strategically uses the law to achieve its ends. This book is devoted to these strategic uses of the law – or ‘lawfare’ – following an investigation into the Department of Justice. Tracing events back to 11 September 2001, the author sets out to show how US administrations have instrumentalised the law, turning it into a weapon of national security.
Mark Corcoral is a research fellow at the Centre for International Research (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris. He is a specialist in US national security policy. His research focuses on the strategic uses of law and on cybersecurity. He has previously published *Cyberattacks: America Identifies Its Enemies* (L’Harmattan, 2021), a study that has won several awards.
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