Review by Martin Crawford
Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War By Howard Jones. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 236. $35 cloth.)

Review by Anders Stephanson
Interviews with George F. Kennan. Edited by T. Christopher Jespersen. (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Pp. 224. $35 cloth.)

by Michael Cotter
Escape With Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam. By Ambassador (ret.) Francis Terry McNamara. (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 1997. Pp. xii, 218. $16.95 paper.)

by William Dale
The Liberty Incident. The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship By A. Jay Cristol. ( Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, Inc., 2002. Pp. xx, 293. $27.50 cloth.)

Review by Francis P. Sempa
Paul Kengor, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. (New York: Regan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, 2006, pp. xvi, 412, notes, index, $29.95. cloth).

Review by Jack R. Perry
Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. By Yale Richmond. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $35 cloth.)

Review by Jacyln Stanke
Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. by Klaus Larres. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002,. Pp. xxii, 583.)

Review by Francis P. Sempa
The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. 195.)

. KEYS TO GLOBAL SUCCESS: CULTURE & IDEALS, NOT “BLOOD & IRON!” Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (New York: Public Affairs, 2004. Pp. xvi, 191. $25 cloth.) Review by James L. … Read more

Special Review: An Assessment by William C. Harrop The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course by Richard N. Haass, (New York, Public Affairs (Perseus Books Group, 2005).“It is somehow troubling that Richard Haass remained almost four years as director of policy planning … Read more

Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more

Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more

Rainbow: War Plans That Worked! Review by James L. Abrahamson The Road to Rainbow: Army Planning for Global War, 1934-1940. By Henry G. Gole. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 224. $34.95 cloth.)“In the years preceding U.S. entry into … Read more

Review by William Dale
Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education. By Robert Hopkins Miller. (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press; ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series and the Modern Southeast Asia Series, 2002, Pp. xix, 247. $36.50 cloth.

Review by Robert Chira

Review of Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix Review by Bob Chira Disarming Iraq. By Hans Blix. (Pantheon Books, New York 2004, Pp. 304, hardcover, $24.) Hans Blix, the former chief of the United Nation’s chemical and biological weapons inspection agency charged with verifying … Read more

A modified version of this review appeared in the Foreign Service Journal of January 2004.American Diplomacy is indebted to that publication and,the reviewer for permission to republish the material. Amb. Peck, a thirty-two year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, retired in the … Read more

The Hegemonic Demands of Pax Americana Review by Jim Abrahamson Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. By Francis P. Sempa. (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Pp. vii, 124. $29.95 cloth.) The Eurasian balance of power being of everlasting … Read more

The Blessings of Globalization–“Done Right” Review by Carl Fritz Globalization and Its Discontents. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Pp. xxii, 288. $15.95 paper.) Stiglitz believes globalization is good if done right; removal of free … Read more

A Cold War that Unleashed a Rising Sun Review by John E. Van Sant America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan’s Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960. By Aaron Forsberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. … Read more