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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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
PDF Version Review of Loch Johnson’s “Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States” (Oxford University Press, 2018). *** There are abundant recent examples of Congress exercising its... -
Diplomacy, Reconsidered
PDF Version Review of Ronan Farrow’s “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence” (W.W. Norton, 2018) and James F. Dobbins’s “Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontline... -
Fighting Tunnels
PDF Version Review of Daphne Richemond-Barak’s “Underground Warfare” (Oxford, 2018). *** -
A Glimpse into Private-Sector Cybersecurity in Japan
PDF Version Review of Shinichi Yokohama’s “Keiei to Saiba Sekyuriti—Dejitalu Rejilienshi [Business Management and Cybersecurity - Digital Resiliency for Executives]” (Nikkei BP, 2018). *** -
Predicting War
PDF Version Review of Lawrence Freedman’s “The Future of War: A History” (Public Affairs, 2017). *** -
Vietnam Revisionism and the Ugly American
PDF Version Review of Max Boot, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam” (Liveright, 2018). *** -
States and Their Proxies in Cyber Operations
PDF Version A review of Tim Maurer’s “Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power” (Cambridge, 2018). *** -
Neoliberalism and Human Rights
PDF Version A review of Samuel Moyn’s “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard, 2018). *** -
War Machines: Artificial Intelligence in Conflict
PDF Version A review of Paul Scharre’s “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War” (W.W. Norton, 2018). *** -
The Psychiatrist’s Goldwater Rule in the Trump Era
PDF Version A review of Bandy X. Lee’s “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” (Thomas Dunne, 2017). *** -
Is Liberal Democracy Doomed to Fail?
PDF Version A review of Yascha Mounk, “The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It” (Harvard, 2018) *** -
Israel and Targeted Killings: Uncomfortable Questions
PDF Version A review of Ronen Bergman’s “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” (Penguin Random House, 2018). ***
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