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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A President and His Justices
A review of Cliff Sloan, “The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made” (PublicAffairs, 2023) -
Nuremberg's Regrettable Sibling: The Contradictions of the Tokyo Tribunal
A review of Gary Bass, "Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023) -
Law and Politics in the Quest for an Independent Department of Justice
A review of Geoffrey Berman, “Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department” (Penguin Press, 2022) -
Is There a Cyber Arms Race?
A review of Max Smeets, "No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force" (Oxford University Press, 2023) -
Disinformation: A Back Pocket Guide
A review of Lee McIntyre, “On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy” (MIT 2023) -
Lessons From Israel’s Rise as a Cyber Power
A review of “Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power” by Charles D. Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Sabonoi. -
A Gumshoe Reporter's Revealing Behind-the-Scenes Look at Facebook
A review of “Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets” (Doubleday, 2023) -
Intelligence in the Digital Age
A review of Amy B. Zegart, “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: the History and Future of American Intelligence” (Princeton University Press, 2022) -
Female Intelligence
A review of Liza Mundy, “The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women of the CIA” (Crown, 2023) -
What Makes a State Rational?
A review of John Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, “How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy” (Yale University Press, 2023). -
Ukraine's Nuclear Moment
A review of Mariana Budjeryn, “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). -
How China’s Spies Fooled an America That Wanted to be Fooled
A review of Alex Joske, “Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World” (Hardie Grant, 2022).
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