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Review: 'Terror and Consent' by Philip Bobbitt

TERROR AND CONSENT: The Wars for the 21st Century, by Philip Bobbitt. Knopf, 672 pp., $35.

'We should make no mistake," Philip Bobbitt writes in "Terror and Consent," his magisterial analysis of the long struggle civilization is facing: "This is war." From this single, salient point, the rest of his complex argument grows.

Bobbitt is a professor of law at Columbia, senior fellow at...

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