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.
Latest in Book Reviews
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
Today’s Revolution: Cybersecurity and the International Order
PDF Version A review of Lucas Kello’s The Virtual Weapon and International Order (Yale University Press, 2017). *** -
What’s So Great About the Declare War Clause?
PDF Version A review of Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison,” (Random House, 2017). *** I -
What's So Great About the Declare War Clause? Noah Feldman's Madison & War Powers: Part III
The first two essays of this three-part series on Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison” discussed Madison’s theory of war powers and some of its failure or adaptation in practice. This last e... -
What’s So Great About the Declare War Clause? Noah Feldman’s Madison & War Powers: Part II
The first essay in this three-part series about Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison” discussed how Madison’s theory of war powers was focused heavily on internal dangers to liberty and repub... -
What's So Great About the Declare War Clause? Noah Feldman's Madison & War Powers: Part I
I have long believed two things about constitutional war powers, which my reading of Noah Feldman’s “The Three Lives of James Madison” largely confirmed. First, James Madison was brilliant and prescient ... -
Following the Money
PDF Version A review of Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel Katz's Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters (Hachette, 2017). *** -
A Pivotal Year
PDF Version A review of David Stevenson's 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (Oxford, 2017). *** -
The Habeas Privilege and Enemy Combatants
PDF version A review of Amanda Tyler's Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay (Oxford, 2017). *** -
Congress and the President in Wartime
PDF version A review of David Barron's Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon & Schuster, 2016). *** -
Will Emerging Weapons Change the Law of War?
PDF version A review of Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo's Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules of War (Encounter Books, 2017). *** -
The Divisible College of International Lawyers
PDF version A review of Anthea Roberts's Is International Law International? (Oxford, 2017). *** -
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...
Topics
