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Presidents and War Powers

Matthew Waxman Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 2:29 PM

A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018).

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The Death of Cyber Utopia

Paul Rosenzweig Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 2:12 PM

A review of P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2018).

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A Tale of Two Narratives

Gabriel Schoenfeld Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 2:08 PM

A review of Greg Miller's “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018).

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A Whimper, Not a Bang

Alan Z. Rozenshtein Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 3:15 PM

A review of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, “How Democracies Die” (Crown, 2018).

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The 'Caroline' Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense

Matthew Waxman Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 2:26 PM

Review of Craig Forcese, Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War (Irwin Law, 2018)

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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

Steve Slick Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 11:45 AM

Review of Loch Johnson’s “Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States” (Oxford University Press, 2018).

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Diplomacy, Reconsidered

Chimène Keitner Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 2:00 PM

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 Frontlines of American Diplomacy” (RAND/Brookings, 2017).