The Book Review delves into the many books on national security and related fields published each year. It offers reviews that range widely across subjects and disciplines, from domestic and international law to history, strategic and military studies, from national security journalism to terrorism and counterterrorism, ethics, and technology. Contributors include scholars, serving or former government officials or military personnel, journalists, experts of many kinds, and students in law school or university.
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The Big Fix
A review of Martin Wolf, “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism” (Penguin, 2023) -
A New Insiders’ Account of the Mueller Investigation
A review of Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, “Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation” (Simon & Schuster, 2024) -
How Autocrats Gained the Upper Hand
A review of Anne Applebaum, “Autocracy, Inc.”(Doubleday, 2024). -
Xi Jinping: The Man, the System, the Icon
A review of Chun Han Wong, “Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future” (Simon & Schuster, 2023) -
How Ukraine Survived the First Year After Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion
A review of Yaroslav Trofimov, “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence” (Penguin Press 2024) -
Presidential Unilateralism Is Bad. But Not for War Powers.
A review of Harold Hongju Koh, “The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century” (Yale University Press, 2024). -
The Justice Department and the Challenge of Public Confidence
A review of David Rohde, “Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy” (W.W. Norton, 2024). -
Climate Migration Comes Home
A review of Abrahm Lustgarten, “On the Move” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024) -
China is Reshaping the Maritime Legal Order
A review of Isaac B. Kardon, “China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order” (Yale University Press, 2023) -
A Salesman’s Guide to the Scourge of Misinformation
A review of Steven Brill’s “The Death of Truth” (Knopf, 2024) -
When Aiming for Your Adversary’s Achilles Heel May Lead to Shooting Yourself in the Foot
A review of Steve Coll, “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq” (Penguin Random House, 2024) -
The Hidden Stories of China's Past
A review of Ian Johnson, “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for Their Future” (Oxford University Press, 2023)
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