The attacks in Paris November 13, 2015, by the Islamic State (or ISIS, ISIL, or of late, Daesh) have escalated the debate over whether to take military action — and whose call that would be.

In a piece for the Washington Post political science blog The Monkey Cage, Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, says it’s time for Congress to weigh in. Read “Should Obama Bomb the Islamic State? Ask Congress First.”