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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A Response to Steve Slick’s Review of ‘Finks’
At the heart of Steve Slick’s September 26 review of my book Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, lies an unstated riddle: When do democratic institutions allow themselves to censor? Slic... -
Misreading Palestinian Politics
PDF version A review of Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon's, The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas (Prometheus, 2017) *** -
How Not to End War
PDF version A review of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro's, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (Simon & Schuster, 2017) *** -
Endless War
PDF version A review of Robert Gerwarth’s The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). *** -
A Lost Opportunity to Learn Lessons from the Cultural Cold War
PDF VERSION A review of Joel Whitney's book, Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers (OR Books, 2017). *** -
The Fabric of Life in Contemporary Kashmir
PDF version A review of Arundhati Roy's novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf, 2017). *** -
The Security Dilemma of Cyberspace: Ancient Logic, New Problems
PDF version A review of Ben Buchanan's The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations (Oxford University Press, 2017). *** -
Activating Global Law
PDF version A review of Butterfly Politics by Catharine A. MacKinnon (Harvard University Press, 2017). *** -
Wilson and the League of Nations
PDF version A review of Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment by Trygve Throntveit (University of Chicago Press, 2017). *** -
Truthiness in the Cold War
PDF version A review of Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe by Melissa Feinberg (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017). *** -
Globalism and its Discontents
PDF version A review of The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 by Or Rosenboim (Princeton University Press, 2017). *** -
Paradigms of International Human Rights Law: An Exchange
Earlier this month, Tom Dannenbaum reviewed Aaron Fellmeth’s new book, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law. Fellmeth responds to the review below. Dannenbaum then replies. * * * Fellmeth resp...
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