IISS-US Roundtable Discussion
“A Transatlantic View of ‘Hot’ Battlefields,
Out-of-Theater Targeting, and Cooperation Among Allies”
Sir Daniel Bethlehem QC
Consulting Senior Fellow for Law and Strategy, IISS
Former Principal Legal Adviser, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Harold Hongju Koh
Legal Adviser, US Department of State
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
IISS-US, 2121 K Street NW, Suite 801
Washington, DC 20037
Sir Daniel Bethlehem addressed the self defense versus armed conflict debate in counter-terrorism military operations; out-of-theater targeting; and the challenges of cooperation among allies. Harold Koh commented on his remarks.
Daniel Bethlehem is Consulting Senior Fellow for Law and Strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Director of Legal Policy International Ltd (LPI), a policy consultancy working on high legal content foreign policy issues. He was Principal Legal Adviser of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office from May 2006 to May 2011.
Harold Hongju Koh is Legal Adviser at the US Department of State. He is on leave from Yale Law School, where he served as Dean from 2004 to 2009. He was previously the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1998 to 2001.
This meeting was moderated by Andrew Parasiliti, Executive Director, IISS-US and Corresponding Director, IISS-Middle East.
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