Blending historical research with policy analysis, Streets Without Joy investigates the concept of sanctuary in Washington’s understanding of how warfare should be conducted, against conventional and unconventional opponents alike.
Bernard Fall… nuclear strategist? One of the pieces of archival treasure I discovered among Fall’s personal papers is evidence of his awareness of and engagement with nuclear issues. In a general sense, that’s a claim that could be made of… Read More ›
I often tell people that research on sanctuary in international politics – the subject of my forthcoming book, Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009, is a gift that keeps on giving. Streets is nothing if… Read More ›
In 1994, the legal scholar John Phillip Reid published a somewhat cynical article on forensic history in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. It contains some real zingers on the intersection between law and history, how practitioners of each… Read More ›
Context is everything. As Maya Jasanoff, the Harvard historian, asks, in lyrical terms: “If a writer harbored bias, shall we never speak his name? Or when he wrote with insight, might we read him all the same?” The questions appear… Read More ›
Blending historical research with policy analysis, Innes investigates how the concept of sanctuary shaped Washington’s own understanding of how warfare should be conducted, against conventional and unconventional opponents alike.
