Technology presents both consumer convenience and risk, creating a conflict between security and privacy as government agencies seek to weaken the protections that consumers want heightened.

The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1, when Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Susan Landau about her forthcoming book, "Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age."

Join us this evening for a book soiree with Hoover Institution from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., when Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Tim Edgar about his new book, "Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA."

The Kellogg-Briand Pact is often remembered as a failure. Signed in 1928 to outlaw war, it was followed in just over a decade by one of the deadliest conflicts in history. But Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro see the pact differently. In their new book, "The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World," they argue that though it did not successfully end all war, the pact changed the way states resolve disputes, reduced the likelihood of conquest, and set of a chain of events that led to the modern world order.