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Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neoconservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy. By Tom Farer. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 257. £50, cloth; $29.95, £16.50, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Russell A. Miller
Russell A. Miller*
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Washington & Lee University School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 103 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 796 - 800
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1 See, e.g., Mary, Ellen O’Connell, The Power and Purpose of International Law (2008)Google Scholar.

2 My own inexperience with research and commentary on Islamic terrorism renders me unable to say very much about Farer’s survey of that subject—except to note that fifteen pages of definitional material, much of which is given over to the British experience of decolonization in India, strikes me as selective and summary. I am somewhat more familiar with the literature concerned with the roots of, and contemporary debate over, neoconservative theory. Farer largely bases his definitional treatment of the school on contemporary commentary in the popular media. The reader looks in vain for a citation to Carl Schmitt or Leo Strauss or even Jeremy Rabkin. Sergio Dellavalle has written a more substantive, independent treatment of neoconservatism. See Sergio, Dellavalle, The Necessity of International Law Against the A–Normativity of Neo–conservative Thought, in Progress in International Law 95 (Russell, A. Miller & Rebecca, M. Bratspies eds., 2008)Google Scholar.

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8 See Jürgen, Habermas, Between Facts and NORMS (William, Rehg trans., 1998)Google Scholar.