Book Reviews
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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Reconstruction and the Pursuit of ‘Loyal’ Governance
A review of Mark A. Graber, “Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War” (University Press of Kansas, 2023). -
The Shadow War
A review of Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, “Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East” (Simon &... -
Military Innovation on the Global Stage
A review of Andrew F. Krepinevich, “The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers” (Yale University Press, 2023). -
Behind the Scenes With the Alt-Right
A Review of Elle Reeve’s “Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics” (Atria Books, 2024) -
Divine Madness
A review of Jerome Copulsky, “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” (Yale University Press, 2024). -
Elon Musk’s Takeover
A review of “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” and “Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History.” -
The Big Fix
A review of Martin Wolf, “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism” (Penguin, 2023) -
A New Insiders’ Account of the Mueller Investigation
A review of Aaron Zebley, James Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, “Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation” (Simon & Schuster, 2024) -
How Autocrats Gained the Upper Hand
A review of Anne Applebaum, “Autocracy, Inc.”(Doubleday, 2024). -
Xi Jinping: The Man, the System, the Icon
A review of Chun Han Wong, “Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future” (Simon & Schuster, 2023) -
How Ukraine Survived the First Year After Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion
A review of Yaroslav Trofimov, “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence” (Penguin Press 2024) -
Presidential Unilateralism Is Bad. But Not for War Powers.
A review of Harold Hongju Koh, “The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century” (Yale University Press, 2024).
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