^aDepartment of Political Science, 1050 Bascom Mall, 110 North Hall, Madison, WI 53706, USA. E-mail: hkinsella@wisc.edu

Abstract

In this essay, I review the argument of Patricia Owens stellar new book, Between War and Politics. Specifically, I engage with, although am skeptical of, her claim that that the current detention camps founded and governed by the United States in the global war on terror are dissimilar to those founded and governed by Germany in the Holocaust.