war

"The Origins of Totalitarianism" has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.

When the war in Ukraine finally ends, will we take peace organizations and peace movements more seriously?

A review of “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War."

The inequitable dismissal of US soldiers following the conclusion of the Civil War.

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

The word “isolationist” has been used by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to narrow the range of acceptable public opinion on America’s role in the world.

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.

In her new book, Colley shows how written constitutions developed both as a way to further justify rulers and to turn rebellions into legitimate governments.

Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

Since World War I we’ve been solving problems with dangerous chemicals that introduce new problems.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.

All empires fall. When they do, the violence and terror they’ve wrought on others has a way of coming back around.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.