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Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009

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.

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A Word That Wanders in an International Semantic Jungle

by Michael A. Innes24.03.202024.03.2020

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…

A Mixture Containing More Snares Than Rewards

by Michael A. Innes14.09.201914.09.2019

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…

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you

by Michael A. Innes08.09.201925.09.2019

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…

Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009

by Michael A. Innes16.07.201910.05.2020

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.

Of which the essence thereafter remains unexamined

by Michael A. Innes07.08.201814.09.2019

I’ve been digging into the use of Pearl Harbor analogies in America’s response to the 9-11 attacks – and, because of a curious twist in the political landscape in 2001, I’ve been looking a little more closely at a well…

An area, call it what you will, of safety

by Michael A. Innes08.06.201828.06.2018

Colleagues at Arab Digest have just published an interesting commentary on “Boundaries in the Arab world and their remarkable durability.” It’s not publicly available, but I do hope they’ll release it as a sample for general readers. The piece, authored…