War on Terrorism Books & Reviews

Losing Mythic Authority

Michael Vlahos | Apr 25, 2007
As a result of America’s misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have lost the global clout we derived from our role in World War II—for good.

A War, or Un-War?

Charles V. Peña
J. Peter Pham
| Oct 16, 2006
Experts Peña and Pham square off on Iraq.

Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2006
A review of The J Curve by Ian Bremmer and Winning the Un-War by Charles Peña.  Two authors turn their critical, discerning eye on the foibles of U.S. counter-terror and nation-building strategy. Just one offers a constructive course

How to Fight Terrorism

Daniel Byman | Mar 01, 2005
Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.

Pride and Prejudice

Paul Hollander | Sep 01, 2004
Anti-Americanism takes many forms -- most of them unfair. But as long as it strives to be a City upon a Hill, America Must learn to live with it.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 01, 2003
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

Power Steering

Walter A. McDougall | Dec 01, 2002
Two optimistic portrayals of the international future--by political scientists Joseph Nye and Michael Mandelbaum--go under a historian's scalpel.

Bacon's Proof

Adam Schulman | Mar 01, 2002
Edward Teller's life vindicated Francis Bacon's prediction of the man of science in the public realm. Teller's memoir would vindicate Teller.

Banal and Dubious

Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 01, 2000
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.

How the West Was Spun

John O'Sullivan | Mar 01, 1999
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W

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