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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Keeping the Adversary’s Secrets Secret
PDF Version. A review of Austin Carson, “Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics” (Princeton University Press, 2018) *** -
Justice, the Rule of Law and the Role of the Prosecutor
PDF Version. A review of Preet Bharara, "Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and The Rule of Law" (Knopf, 2019) *** -
Jewish Human Rights
PDF Version. A review of James Loeffler, “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2018) *** With whom have we not spent heart-warming hours there, looking out... -
A User’s Guide to Ending the Trump Presidency
PDF version. A review of David Priess, “How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives” (PublicAffairs, 2018) *** -
Presidents and War Powers
PDF Version. A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018). *** -
The Death of Cyber Utopia
PDF Version A review of P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2018). *** -
A Tale of Two Narratives
PDF Version A review of Greg Miller, “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018) *** Two narratives about Russian interference in the 2016... -
A Whimper, Not a Bang
PDF Version. A review of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018). *** I -
The 'Caroline' Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense
PDF Version Review of Craig Forcese, Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War (Irwin Law, 2018) * * * -
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
PDF Version Review of Loch Johnson’s “Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States” (Oxford University Press, 2018). *** There are abundant recent examples of Congress exercising its... -
Diplomacy, Reconsidered
PDF Version Review of Ronan Farrow’s “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence” (W.W. Norton, 2018) and James F. Dobbins’s “Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontline... -
Fighting Tunnels
PDF Version Review of Daphne Richemond-Barak’s “Underground Warfare” (Oxford, 2018). ***
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