Other Writing

"Just and Unjust Proliferation," Ethics, vol. 130, no. 3 (April 2020), pp. 349-83.

"Bargaining Away Justice: India, Pakistan, and the International Politics of Impunity for the Bangladesh Genocide," International Security, vol. 41, no. 2 (fall 2016), pp. 140-87.

"The Indian Way of Humanitarian Intervention," Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 40, no. 2 (summer 2015), pp. 227-94.

"Jus Post Bellum," Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 32, no. 4 (fall 2004), pp. 384-412.

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"What Jack Smith Knows," The New York Times, op-ed, July 31, 2023.

"The Cost of Presidential Racism," The New York Times, op-ed, September 4, 2020.

"Victors' Justice?" The New York Times Book Review, August 30, 2020.

"The Athenian Plague, A Cautionary Tale of Democracy's Fragility," The New Yorker, June 10, 2020.

"The Art of the Shadow Deal," The Economist, November 23, 2019.

"Woe the People," The New York Times Book Review, cover story, June 30, 2019.

"Trump's Ignorant Comments About Japan Were Bad Even for Him," The New York Times, op-ed, June 28, 2019.

"To Life," The Economist, March 23, 2019.

"Trump's Uniform Obsession," The New York Times Book Review, July 1, 2018.

"Indonesia's Forgotten Bloodbath," Foreign Affairs, vol. 97, no. 4 (July-August 2018).

"Trump's Cynical Use of Human Rights," The New York Times, op-ed, February 13, 2018.

"Mayhem Through The Centuries," The New York Times Book Review, November 19, 2017.

"We, Too, Were Forced to Seek Refuge," The Atlantic, October 26, 2017.

"Dissent at the U.S. State Department," Foreign Affairs, February 3, 2017.

"Forget It," The New York Times Book Review, June 12, 2016.

"War Child: Stanley Hoffmann, R.I.P.," Foreign Affairs, September 2015.

"What a Senator Can Do," The Boston Globe, November 29, 2013.

"Nixon and Kissinger's Forgotten Shame," The New York Times, op-ed, September 30, 2013.

"Rules of War," The New York Times Book Review, September 30, 2012.

"Farewell to Arms," The New York Times Book Review, January 1, 2012.

"For God and Nation," The New York Times Book Review, July 10, 2011.

"Human Rights Last," Foreign Policy, March-April 2011.

"Endless War," The New York Times Book Review, September 5, 2010.

"When France and Israel Broke Up," The New York Times, op-ed, April 1, 2010.

"The Prague (Berlin, Paris, Milan) Spring," The New York Times Book Review, March 15, 2009.

"Unvarnished Conclusions After Covering, and Uncovering, the White House," The New York Times, January 12, 2009.

"Despot Watch," The New York Times Book Review, October 11, 2008.

"Catastrophic Exceptions," Dissent, fall 2008.

"Humanitarian Impulses," The New York Times Magazine, August 17, 2008.

"Independence Daze," The New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008.

"Clueless," The New York Times Magazine, May 27, 2007.

"Everybody Everywhere," The New Republic, May 7, 2007.

"Turkey’s Killing Fields," The New York Times Book Review, December 17, 2006.

"What Really Causes Civil War?" The New York Times Magazine, August 13, 2006.

"A Shrine to Japan's Tainted Past," The New York Times, op-ed, August 5, 2006.

"China's Unsavory Friends," The Washington Post, April 23, 2006.

"Chemical Wars," The New York Times Book Review, February 12, 2006.

"Are Democracies Really More Peaceful?" The New York Times Magazine, January 1, 2006.

"Try and Try Again," The New York Times, op-ed, September 26, 2005.

"Word Problem," The New Yorker, May 3, 2004.

"Milosevic in The Hague," Foreign Affairs, vol. 82, no. 3 (May-June 2003), pp. 82-96.