“…For a long time, the study of the role of legislatures in security policy has focused almost exclusively on the US Congress. There is an established and still growing literature on the relationship between Congress and the Presidency over matters of foreign and security policy, particularly in the field of war powers (Auerswald and Cowhey, 1997; Böller, 2015; Fowler, 2015; Glennon, 2003; Grimmett, 2001; Hallett, 1998, 2012; Howell and Pevehouse, 2005, 2007; Scott and Carter, 2014; Zeisberg, 2013). Outside the US context, this field has gained traction only more recently, coinciding with growing political interest in involving parliaments in matters of security policy after the Cold War.…”