Conflitti bellici potenziali e controllo parlamentare: il caso della partnership di sicurezza tra Australia, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti («AUKUS»)

Potential war and parliamentary oversight: the case of the Australian-UK-US security partnership (AUKUS)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to verify the level of parliamentarisation that the legal systems of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have granted to the major policy choices underlying the establishment and development of the AUKUS security partnership: choices that straddle the sphere of treaty-making power, from a formal-procedural perspective, and the sphere of war power, due to their potential substantial implications; in short, choices pertaining to the so-called “foreign power”, traditionally drawn into a sort of reserved domain of the executives.

Keywords: AUKUS; Parliamentary control; Treaty-making power; War power.