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What is a Civil War?
Andrew Kent Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 8:30 AM
A review of David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf 2017).
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International Law & Nineteenth-Century American Empire
Matthew Waxman Thu, Mar 9, 2017, 12:00 PM
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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 Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016).
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The Human Rights Agenda and the Struggle Against Impunity
Barrie Sander Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 8:30 AM
A review of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016).
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Detention in a World War I POW Camp
Geoffrey S. Corn Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 3:00 PM
Geoffrey Corn, one of the Lawfare Book Review editors, offers a retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic 1937 film set in World War I, La Grande Illusion
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The Waning Federal Monopoly over Foreign Relations
Peter Spiro Mon, Jan 9, 2017, 11:14 AM
A review of Michael Glennon and Robert Sloane, Foreign Affairs Federalism: The Myth of National Exclusivity (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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A Necessary Discussion About International Law
Ken Watkin Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 11:00 AM
A review of Jens David Ohlin and Larry May's Necessity in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016)
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Evolving Standards of Dual Citizenship
Joseph Landau Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 12:33 PM
A review of Peter Spiro's At Home in Two Countries (NYU Press, 2016).
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Law and Conflict for the Contemporary Practitioner
William Fenrick Fri, Dec 2, 2016, 7:30 AM
A review of Kenneth Watkin's Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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The Inner Life of a Dictatorship
Michael Gibbs Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 12:00 PM
A review of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, by Oleg Khlevniuk (Yale University Press, reprint edition, 2016)
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A Costly Pause in a Troubled Relationship
Steve Slick Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 7:30 AM
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).