Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. Parts of his essay in the Review‘s October 13, 2011 issue were drawn from his Tanner Lectures on Human Value at Stanford University, which will be published next year as Torture and the Forever War. His work can be found at markdanner.com.
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After September 11: Our State of Exception
October 13, 2011
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The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means
April 30, 2009
ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross
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US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
April 9, 2009
ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross
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Frozen Scandal
December 4, 2008
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Obama & Sweet Potato Pie
November 20, 2008
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A Fateful Election
November 6, 2008
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‘The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam’
November 8, 2007
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Iraq: The War of the Imagination
December 21, 2006
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
by Bob Woodward
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
by Ron Suskind
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen
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The Memo, the Press, and the War: An Exchange
August 11, 2005
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‘The Secret Way to War’: An Exchange
July 14, 2005
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What Are You Going to Do with That?
June 23, 2005
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The Secret Way to War
June 9, 2005
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Iraq: The Real Election
April 28, 2005
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Bush’s Victory: Second Thoughts
March 10, 2005
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Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange
February 10, 2005
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How Bush Really Won
January 13, 2005
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story
October 7, 2004
Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations (The Schlesinger Report) by James R. Schlesinger, Harold Brown, Tillie K. Fowler, and General Charles A. Horner (USAF-Ret.)
AR 15-6 Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility and 205th Military Intelligence Brigade by Major General George R. Fay
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The Logic of Torture
June 24, 2004
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Torture and Truth
June 10, 2004
Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade(The Taguba Report) by Major General Antonio M. Taguba
Report of the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation by Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross,February 2004
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‘Delusions in Baghdad’
February 12, 2004
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Delusions in Baghdad
December 18, 2003
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Iraq: The New War
September 25, 2003
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The Road to Illegitimacy
February 22, 2001
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Scandal & the Road to Deadlock
December 21, 2000
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Clinton & Colombia: The Privilege of Folly
October 5, 2000
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The Shame of Political TV
September 21, 2000
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Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory
July 15, 1999
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Endgame in Kosovo
May 6, 1999
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‘Operation Storm’
October 22, 1998
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War by Marcus Tanner
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick, photographs by John Costello
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
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The Killing Fields of Bosnia
September 24, 1998
To End a War
by Richard Holbrooke
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War by Marcus Tanner
The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar
text by Eric Stover, photographs by Peress Gilles, foreword by Richard Goldstone
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
by Jan Willem Honig, by Norbert Both
Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia
by Chuck Sudetic
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica: Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War II
by David Rohde
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Slouching Toward Dayton
April 23, 1998
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke
Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege by Tom Gjelten
The Choice: How Clinton Won by Bob Woodward
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Bosnia: The Great Betrayal
March 26, 1998
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde
Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic
The Reluctant Superpower: United States’ Policy in Bosnia, 1991-95 by Wayne Bert
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig, by Norbert Both
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah
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Bosnia: Breaking the Machine
February 19, 1998
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig, by Norbert Both
The Serbs: History, Myth & the Resurrection of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah
Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic
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Bosnia: The Turning Point
February 5, 1998
Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia’s War by Ed Vulliamy
Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic
Survival in Sarajevo: How a Jewish Community Came to the Aid of Its City Distributed Art Publishers) by Edward Serotta
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Resurrection of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah
Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations by Warren P. Stroebel
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War by James Gow
Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its DestroyersAmerica’s Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why by Warren Zimmerman
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Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnian Disaster
December 18, 1997
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honeg, by Norbert Both
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde
Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations by Warren P. Strobel
Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic
The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia, 1991-1995 by Wayne Bert
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War by James Gow
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff
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America and the Bosnia Genocide
December 4, 1997
Witness to Genocide by Roy Gutman
Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia’s War by Ed Vulliamy
The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia by Rezak Hukanovic, with a Foreword by Elie Wiesel
Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations by Warren P. Strobel
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Resurrection of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah
Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia by Beverly Allen
The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia by Michael A. Sells
“Yugoslavia: 1989-1996” by Warren Zimmermann. in US and Russian Policymaking with Respect to the Use of Force, edited by Jeremy R. Azrael, by Emil A. Pagin
The Conceit of Innocence: Losing the Conscience of the West in the War Against Bosnia
edited by Stjepan G. Mestrovic
This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia edited by Thomas Cushman, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic
Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing by Norman Cigar
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff
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The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe
November 20, 1997
Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its DestroyersAmerica’s Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why by Warren Zimmermann
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honeg, by Norbert Both
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde
The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia, 1991-1995 by Wayne Bert
The World and Yugoslavia’s Wars
edited by Richard H. Ullmann
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War by James Gow
The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah
Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War by Susan L. Woodward
American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider’s Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989-1992
by Robert L. Hutchings
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The Fall of the Prophet
December 2, 1993
Aristide: An Autobiography
by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny, translated by Linda M. Maloney
In the Parish of the Poor: Writings From Haiti
by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, translated and edited by Amy Wilentz
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The Prophet
November 18, 1993
Aristide: An Autobiography
In the Parish of the Poor:Writings From Haiti
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Haiti on the Verge
November 4, 1993
Tout Homme Est Un Homme: Tout Moun Se Moun by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny
Aristide: An Autobiography
In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti
Théologie et politique by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, preface by Leonardo Boff
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The Consequences to Come
September 24, 2008
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The Consequences to Come
September 24, 2008