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 Bivens Encomium—or Elegy
PDF version A review of James E. Pfander, Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2017). *** -
A Reform Proposal for Global Refugee Policies
Lawfare Brief Reviews is pleased to note Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World (Oxford UP, forthcoming September 2017), by Paul Collier and Alexander Betts. Paul Collier is professor of e... -
A Philosophical Foundation for International Human Rights Law?
PDF version A review of Aaron Xavier Fellmeth, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
The Newest Idealism: Human Rights in US Foreign Policy
PDF version A review of Joe Renouard, Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). *** -
Remaining Faithful to “the Basic Principles of Human Rights Found in the Original ECHR”?
PDF version A review of Marco Duranti, The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention (Oxford University Press, 2016). -
A Culture on Trial
PDF version A review of Kim Christian Priemel, The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence (Oxford University Press 2016). *** -
What is a Civil War?
PDF version A review of David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf 2017). *** -
International Law & Nineteenth-Century American Empire
PDF version Matthew Waxman reviews Deborah A. Rosen’s Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) and Benjamin Allen Coates’s Legalist Empire: International La... -
The Human Rights Agenda and the Struggle Against Impunity
PDF version Barrie Sander reviews Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016). *** -
Detention in a World War I POW Camp
PDF version A retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic film, La Grande Illusion (1937). *** -
The Waning Federal Monopoly over Foreign Relations
PDF version A review of Michael Glennon and Robert Sloane, Foreign Affairs Federalism: The Myth of National Exclusivity (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
A Necessary Discussion About International Law
PDF version A review of Jens David Ohlin and Larry May's Necessity in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). ***
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