War and National Security

The Best Defense

The problem with Bush’s “preemptive” war doctrine.

  • Neta C. Crawford

The Politics of Rescue

Debating humanitarian intervention.

  • Carroll Bogert

Civil Liberties after 9/11

We should resist trading off liberties for security for reasons of principle, pragmatism, and self-interest.

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Bonnie Honig
  • Amitai Etzioni
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • Philip A. Thomas
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Oren Gross
  • Hiroshi Motomura
  • Laurence Tribe
  • Wendy Kaminer
  • Mari Matsuda

Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

  • Elaine Scarry
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Paul W. Kahn
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Charles Knight
  • Antonia Chayes
  • Catherine Lutz
  • Eugene J. Carroll, Jr.
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Ellen Willis

Victims for the Prosecution

A survivor of the embassy bombings on the limits of victim impact testimony.

  • Susan F. Hirsch

Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual

America’s “new war” reflects an epochal change in the nature of collective violence.

  • Charles Tilly

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Fenced In

As Arafat declines and Israel’s grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

  • Helena Cobban

Justice or Therapy?

Deabtes on how to heal from the Rwandan genocide. 

  • Kenneth Roth
  • Alison DesForges
  • Helena Cobban

The Legacies of Collective Violence

The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law.

  • Helena Cobban

The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

  • Lama Abu-Odeh
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Leonard Fein
  • Louis Michael Seidman
  • Ian S. Lustick
  • Ebrahim Moosa
  • Efraim Karsh
  • Jerome M. Segal
  • Salim Tamari

What’s Wrong with Missile Defense

 An interview with Ted Postol.

  • Joshua Cohen

Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos

  • Kieko Matteson
  • Robert Perkinson

Eliminating the Danger

What can we do to prevent a nuclear catastrophe?

  • Boston Review
with responses from
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Lawrence S. Wittner
  • Vladislav M. Zubok
  • Jonathan Schell
  • Sergey Rogov

The Two Hundred Years War

The origins of conflict in Yugoslavia. 

  • G. M. Tamás

Identity Politics

Forced deportations threaten to turn the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war.

  • Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

Banishing the Specter of War

How early warning and early action can prevent the escalation of disputes into armed violence.

  • Randall Forsberg
  • Jonathan Dean
  • Saul Mendlovitz
with responses from
  • Kosta Tsipis
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Alan Cranston
  • Lora Lumpe
  • Randall Forsberg

Review: The Color of Truth

By Kai Bird.

  • Jeff Jones

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

  • John Tirman

Ataturk’s Children

Casting light on Washington’s genocidal ally in the Middle East.

  • John Tirman

Toward the End of War

Modern weapons are so destructive that war is less and less likely to take place.

  • Randall Forsberg
with responses from
  • Robert Borosage
  • Edward Luttwak
  • Raimo Väyrynen
  • Ulrich Albrecht
  • Carl Kaysen
  • Bruce Russett
  • Ronald V. Dellums

Spreading the Nationalist Virus

Yugoslavia was killed by toxic nationalism.

  • Michael Montgomery

Atrocities

World War II ended the tradition of civilian immunity. We’ve been living with the consequences ever since.

  • Allan Forbes

Force Without Reason

Why does needless military spending remain impervious to reduction, while critically needed domestic programs are slashed?

  • Randall Forsberg

Wasting Billions

Cooperative Security: The Military Problem.

  • Randall Forsberg
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