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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The Thing About Facebook
A Review of Sarah Wynn-Williams’s “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” (Flatiron Books, 2025) -
Tracing the Origins of a ‘New American Surveillance State’
A review of Byron Tau, "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State" (Crown, 2024). -
How History Repeats Itself: Gloss and the Foreign Relations Constitution
A review of Curtis Bradley, “Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice” (Harvard University Press, 2024) -
Taming the Dogs of War – U.S. Efforts to Control Proxy Forces
A review of Erica L. Gaston's “Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria” (Columbia University Press, 2024). -
Fanning the Flames of Conflict
A review of Peter Schwartzstein, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Front Lines of Climate Violence” (Island Press, 2024). -
A Primer on 21st-Century Economic Weapons
Columbia University scholar Edward Fishman unpacks key economic national security campaigns over the past two decades and provides a warning about the misuse of economic sanctions and export controls. -
‘Data Colonialism’ and the Political Economy of Big Tech
A review of Mejias and Couldry, “Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back” (University of Chicago Press, 2024). -
How to Win a War Against Reality
A review of Steve Benen, “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past” (Harper Collins, 2024) and Jason Stanley, “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to ... -
The Loss of Afghanistan
A review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (Yale University Press, 2024). -
How Far Will Campaign Finance Deregulation Go?
A review of Ann Southworth, “Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending” (University of Chicago Press, 2022). -
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 &...
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