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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"War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences," by Mary L. Dudziak
Published by Oxford University Press (2012) Reviewed by Samuel Moyn Consider two views about what went wrong after 9/11 (if you think anything did). -
"The Sudan Handbook," by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo, and Jok Madut Jok, eds.
Published by James Currey (London UK 2011) Reviewed by Tom Porteous -
"Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics," by Stephen F. Knott
Published by University of Kansas Press (2012) Reviewed by Benjamin Kleinerman -
"Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War," by Stephen C. Neff
Published by Harvard University Press (2010) Reviewed by Alan G. Kaufman -
"Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda," by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker
Published by Henry Holt/Times Books (2011) Reviewed by Samuel Rascoff -
"The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda," by Ali H. Soufan with Daniel Freedman
Published by WW Norton (2011) Reviewed by Dana Stern Gibber -
"The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History," by Samuel Moyn
Published by Belknap/Harvard UP (2010) Reviewed by Alice Diana Beauheim -
"The Worm: The First Digital World War," by Mark Bowden
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press (2011) Reviewed by Sonia McNeil -
"Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed," by William Shawcross
Published by PublicAffairs (2012) Reviewed by Wells C. Bennett -
"America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare," by Joel Brenner
Published by Penguin Press (2011) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes -
"Prisoners in War," by Sibylle Scheipers, ed.
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson Prisoners in War Ed. Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford 2010) -
"Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors," by Noam Lubell
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford 2010)
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