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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Predicting War
PDF Version Review of Lawrence Freedman’s “The Future of War: A History” (Public Affairs, 2017). *** -
Vietnam Revisionism and the Ugly American
PDF Version Review of Max Boot, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam” (Liveright, 2018). *** -
States and Their Proxies in Cyber Operations
PDF Version A review of Tim Maurer’s “Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power” (Cambridge, 2018). *** -
Neoliberalism and Human Rights
PDF Version A review of Samuel Moyn’s “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard, 2018). *** -
War Machines: Artificial Intelligence in Conflict
PDF Version A review of Paul Scharre’s “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War” (W.W. Norton, 2018). *** -
The Psychiatrist’s Goldwater Rule in the Trump Era
PDF Version A review of Bandy X. Lee’s “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” (Thomas Dunne, 2017). *** -
Is Liberal Democracy Doomed to Fail?
PDF Version A review of Yascha Mounk, “The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It” (Harvard, 2018) *** -
Israel and Targeted Killings: Uncomfortable Questions
PDF Version A review of Ronen Bergman’s “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” (Penguin Random House, 2018). *** -
Punishing Tomorrow's Tweeting Goebbels
PDF Version A review of Gregory S. Gordon, “Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition” (Oxford, 2017). *** -
The Coming Conflicts Will Be Tweeted
PDF Version A review of David Patrikarakos's “War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century,” (Basic Books, 2017). *** -
More of the Same? Human Rights in an Age of Inequality
PDF Version A review of Kathryn Sikkink’s “Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century” (Princeton, 2017). *** -
Is It All About Networking?
PDF Version A review of Niall Ferguson, “The Square and the Tower, Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook” (Penguin, 2018). ***
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