Sep 13
The Secrets of Law, a volume produced by the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Dartmouth College, is now available on Amazon. It includes my chapter on secrecy during the War on Terror, “Open Secrets and Dirty Hands.” The manuscript version of the chapter can be downloaded from SSRN.
Stars and Stripes features my Bloomberg column on US naval policy in today’s top news stories. Read the story.
A column in Business New Europe compares the contemporary European crisis with America’s First Great Depression. “What proves particularly interesting about 1837-1845 is the comparisons that can be made between the political, economic and market thinking in a US that was roughly 60 years old, and the roughly 60-year old EU. ” Read the column: “Merkel, Draghi and 1837”
Bloomberg’s Echoes blog has published my short piece on US naval policy after the War of 1812 — including the construction of a “ghost fleet” of major ships. Read the column. It draws on America’s First Great Depression. Story also picked up on gCaptain and History News Network. Image on right: a stereographic photo of the USS New Orleans, taken in the 1870s. 
Its keel was laid at Sackets Harbor NY in 1815. Had it been finished, it would have been one of the largest warships in the US Navy, and perhaps the world.
The September newsletter for Governance is available here.
Luke Allnut discusses my recent article on WikiLeaks in today’s column on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Also related pieces from Brazil’s Exame, South Africa’s Legal Brief Today, and DemocraticUnderground.com.
The American Review of Public Administration has just published a review of America’s First Great Depression. The book “shows the extent to which economic crisis can ripple out into something far larger,” says Jos Raadschelders. Access the review.
I’ll be giving a talk about America’s First Great Depression at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge MA on September 14. Details here.
The Los Angeles Times has published my oped on the troubles of the US Postal Service in the 1840s. Read the oped. This piece is drawn from America’s First Great Depression. Also on History News Network.
Public Administration Review has just published my article on the Occupy movement online. It will appear in the September/October print issue of the journal. This is a review of several books about the movement published earlier in 2012. The article is open access until December.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
