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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What is a Civil War?
PDF version A review of David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf 2017). *** -
International Law & Nineteenth-Century American Empire
PDF version Matthew Waxman reviews Deborah A. Rosen’s Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) and Benjamin Allen Coates’s Legalist Empire: International La... -
The Human Rights Agenda and the Struggle Against Impunity
PDF version Barrie Sander reviews Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016). *** -
Detention in a World War I POW Camp
PDF version A retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic film, La Grande Illusion (1937). *** -
The Waning Federal Monopoly over Foreign Relations
PDF version A review of Michael Glennon and Robert Sloane, Foreign Affairs Federalism: The Myth of National Exclusivity (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
A Necessary Discussion About International Law
PDF version A review of Jens David Ohlin and Larry May's Necessity in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
Evolving Standards of Dual Citizenship
PDF version A review of Peter Spiro's At Home in Two Countries (NYU Press, 2016). *** -
Law and Conflict for the Contemporary Practitioner
PDF version A review of Kenneth Watkin's Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2016). *** -
The Inner Life of a Dictatorship
PDF version A review of Oleg Khlevniuk's Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale University Press, reprint edition, 2016). *** -
A Costly Pause in a Troubled Relationship
PDF version A review of Jay Solomon's The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East (Random House 2016). *** -
Getting It Right for the First Customer
PDF version Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016). *** -
Global Human Rights in America
PDF version A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016). ***


