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.
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Lessons From Israel’s Rise as a Cyber Power
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). -
A More Democratic Foreign Policy Is Possible
A review of David Allen, “Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century” (Harvard University Press, 2023). -
Was the Iraq War a Foreseeable Blunder?
A review of Melvyn P. Leffler, “Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq” (Oxford University Press, 2023). -
How to End Wars: Lawyering Peace in a Changing World
A review of Paul Williams, “Lawyering Peace” (Cambridge University Press, 2021) -
If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em
A new book argues that the best way to make the American internet less vulnerable to attack from authoritarian adversaries is to lock it down. -
Cyber Insurance and Cybersecurity Policy: An Interconnected History
A review of Josephine Wolff, “Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks” (MIT Press, 2022).
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