U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1989; Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 1987) (editor, with Lawrence Freedman & Gregory Treverton).
Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy (New York: St. Martin?s Press, 1988).
U.S. Nuclear Strategy: The Problem of Extended Deterrence (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford, 1983).
Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).
Tragic Choices (New York: Norton, 1978) (with Guido Calabresi).
Articles
Questions of Security, New York Times, September 10, 2008 at A25 (with John C. Danforth).
Are We Over-Lawyering International Affairs? [2006 National Lawyer's Convention] 11 Chapman Law Review 409 (2008) (with John D. Hutson, John C. Yoo, Philip D. Zelikow, & Hon. Edwin D. Williamson).
Why We Listen, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2006, at A27.
Waging War Against Terror: An Essay for Sandy Levinson, 40 Georgia Law Review 753 (2006).
How to Ruin a Constitution, Guardian Weekly, Sept. 2-8, 2005, at 3.
Facing Jihad, Recalling the Blitz, New York Times, July 10, 2005, ?4, at 12.
Euro Visions, Guardian Weekly, June 3, 2005, at 17 (with others).
American Exceptionalism: The Exception Proves the Rule, 3 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 328 (2005).
Bush, An Optimistic View, The Guardian (London), Nov. 6, 2004, at 24.
How Proof Became a Burden: Saddam?s Intentions Had to Be Part of the Spook?s Judgment Call, The Guardian, Oct. 8, 2004, at 28.
Being Clear About Present Dangers, New York Times, Aug. 11, 2004, at A19.
Aides-Memoire: Clinton?s Autobiography is Out on Tuesday, Financial Times of London, June 19, 2004, at 24 (with others).
Better Than Empire, Financial Times of London, Mar. 13-14, 2004, at W1.
Seeing the Futures, New York Times, Dec. 8, 2003, at A31.
Spooks and Spin Doctors, The Guardian, July 2, 2003, at 19.
Today?s War Is Against Tomorrow?s Iraq, New York Times, Mar. 10, 2003, at A19.
Is Regime Change in Iraq Necessary? Philip Bobbitt vs. Robert Skidelsky, The Prospect, Feb. 2003, at 18 (with Robert Skidelsky).
Marketing the Future of the State, The New Statesman, Jan. 17, 2003.
Why the US and the UK Are Right to Target Iraq, The Times (London), Jan. 10, 2003, Features, at 22.
For Eugene Rostow [Tributes], 113 Yale Law Journal 1 (2003).
The Archbishop is Right: The Nation-State is Dying, The Times (London), Dec. 27, 2002, Features, at 22.
Get Ready for the Next Long War, Time, Sept. 9, 2002, at 84.
?I Too Slept Among Our Dead?, 34 National Journal 2485 (Aug. 31, 2002).
For My Friend [Tributes to Charles L. Black, Jr.], 111 Yale Law Journal 1915 (2002).
Youngstown: Pages from the Book of Disquietude, 19 Constitutional Commentary 3 (2002).
Mark Tushnet: The Right Questions [Symposium: A Celebration of the Work of Mark Tushnet], 90 Georgetown Law Journal 223 (2001).
An Amended Administration, Washington Post, Nov. 27, 2000, at A21 (with Stuart Taylor Jr.).
Critical National Infrastructure, 1998 Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings 102 (2000).
An Open Letter to Congressman Gingrich, 105 Yale Law Journal 1539 (1996) (with Douglas Laycock, Sanford Levinson et al.).
Dear Newt: ?Supermajority? Goes Too Far, Legal Times, Jan. 9, 1995, at 10 (with Douglas Laycock, Sanford Levinson et al.).
Parlor Game, 12 Constitutional Commentary 151 (1995). [Reprinted in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Sanford Levinson eds.; New York: New York University Press, 1998).]
Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 72 Texas Law Review 1869 (1994).
War Powers: An Essay on John Hart Ely?sWar and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath, 92 Michigan Law Review 1364 (1994).
The Third Man, 62 University of Colorado Law Review 415 (1992).
The Committee on the Constitution System Proposals: Coherence and Dominance, 30 William & Mary Law Review 403 (1989).
Methods of Constitutional Argument, 23 University of British Columbia Law Review 449 (1989).
Lessons of the Iran-Contra Affair, Update on Law-Related Education, Mar. 22, 1988, at 40.
A Reply to Professor Ball, 59 Texas Law Review 829 (1981).
Constitutional Fate, 58 Texas Law Review 695 (1980).
Reviews
Our Approval Ratings Are Way Down, New York Times Book Review, Apr. 4, 2004, at 11 (reviewing Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, by Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit, and Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History, by Lee Harris).
Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law, by Mark Tushnet, 41 Stanford Law Review 1233 (1989).
Contributions
The Constitutional Canon, in Legal Canons 400 (Sanford Levinson & J.M. Balkin eds.; New York: New York University Press, 2000).
What it Means to Follow a Rule of Law, in Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer 55 (Linda Meyer ed.; Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999).
Constitutional Interpretation, in Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Law & Legal Theory (Dennis Patterson ed.; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
International Law, in Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Law & Legal Theory (Dennis Patterson ed.; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
Constitutional Interpretation, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 183 (Kermit L. Hall ed.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Covert Action in a Democratic Society, in Senate Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran: Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair 375 (H.R. Doc. No. 433, 100th Cong., 2d Sess., 1987).
The Ethic of Nuclear Deterrence, in Political Realism and International Morality: Ethics in the Nuclear Age 109 (Kenneth Kipnis & Diana T. Meyers eds.; Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987).
Deterrence and American National Security, in Power and Policy in Quest of Law: Essays in Honor of Eugene Victor Rostow, 317 (Meyers S. McDougal & W. Michael Reisman eds.; Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985).