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.
Latest in Book Reviews
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From How Africa Works to How It Will Transform
A review of Joe Studwell, “How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026). -
An Optimist’s Account of Artificial Intelligence
A review of Josh Tyrangiel’s “AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things that Matter” (Simon & Schuster, 2026). -
Harsh Confinement
A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War” (Norton, 2026). -
How Authoritarians Control the News
A review of Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, “Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News” (Columbia University Press 2025). -
Undersea Cables and the Material Politics of Digital Connectivity
A review of Samanth Subramanian, “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World” (Columbia Global Reports, 2025). -
A First Step to Unpacking Cyber, Deception, and Intelligence Contests
A review of “Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft,” Jon Lindsay (Cornell, 2025) -
Assassination and the Making of the Modern World
A review of Simon Ball, “Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination” (Yale University Press, 2025). -
Inside the World of Teen Cybercrime
A review of Joe Tidy, “Ctrl + Alt + Chaos: How Teenage Hijackers Hijack the Internet” (Hanover Square Press, 2026). -
Safe Havens for Rebels
A review of Jenny Huangfu Day, “Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China” (Cambridge University Press, 2026) -
From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science
A review of Michael E. Mann & Peter J. Hotez, “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World” (Public Affairs, 2025) -
The Principle-Policy Gap in American Tax Attitudes
A review of Andrea Campbell, “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” (Princeton University Press, 2025). -
Understanding Iran’s Strategy—Then, Now, and Next
A review of Vali Nasr’s “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History” (Princeton University Press, 2025)
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