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Shades of Abu Ghraib

Alistair Horne | Oct 27, 2009
The grisly subject of torture is back with us again. A look back at the dark days of de Gaulle's struggle to hold onto Algeria reveals consequences that echo loudly in our newest fight to retain what it means to be civilized.

Detention Nation

Karen J. Greenberg | Apr 27, 2009
George W. Bush’s policies toward terror detainees were perhaps some of his most jaw-dropping. Barack Obama came to office promising to change course. So far, he has done little. It remains to be seen whether the president can—or wants to—develop a

Straw Man in the Wind

Thomas Homer-Dixon | Jan 02, 2008
In his article "What Resource Wars?" David Victor argued that the threat of resource wards is exaggerated. Thomas Homer-Dixon responds.

Debating Disaster: The World Is Not Enough

Thomas Homer-Dixon
Michael T. Klare
Sherri W. Goodman
Paul J. Kern
David G. Victor
| Jan 02, 2008
In the previous issue of The National Interest, David Victor argued that the threat of resource wars is exaggerated.

The Death of Conquest

Anna Simons | Mar 01, 2003
We don't "do" conquest anymore--but the new anti-conquest norm has had several unforeseen consequences. Some are proving very worrisome.

Courting Danger

John R. Bolton | Dec 01, 1998
Advocates of a permanent international court to try perpetrators of war crimes and other "crimes against humanity" achieved a major success in July 1997.
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Commentary

Drone Strikes and Just War

James Jay Carafano | Feb 15, 2013
The argument that new technology demands new rules of war is as timeworn as it is unpersuasive.

The Torture Temptation

Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 01, 2013
The most compelling argument for legal torture is actually both sloppy and dangerous.

The Sacred Rules of War

Scott Atran | Apr 12, 2011
Washington's murky and confusing justifications can't seem to answer one simple question: what are we fighting for in Libya?
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Blogs

Football and War, American Style

Paul R. Pillar | Sep 09, 2010
At least in some ways, football shapes Americans' perceptions of war. Or should we say misperceptions?

Books & Reviews

Pinker the Prophet

Robert Jervis | Oct 25, 2011
For those who think we live in an age of unrestrained violence, think again. At least according to one Harvard psychologist, mankind has learned to rein in its inner demons. But is Pinker’s civilization-as-progress thesis too good to be true?

In the Shadow of War

Richard Overy | Dec 29, 2009
Western society tends to see disaster all around, from climate change to terrorism. But we live in a time of unbridled prosperity. Our age has nowhere near as great a measure of crisis as the age of total war.

The Laws of War

Raymond Bonner | Mar 02, 2009
Stopping torture and changing the policies of the Bush administration may not be enough. With a whole new type of terrorist bred from extraordinary rendition and torture, the last eight years may well prove inescapable.

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