By Carey Lodge, staff writer Christian Today http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christians.being.targeted.in.egypt/35017.htm Reviewed by James L. Abrahamson, contributing editor On last December’s United Nations “Human Rights Day,” five religious spokesmen testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding escalating human rights abuses directed at … Read more

By Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Text: http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/rand-paul-diplomacy-9714 Reviewed by David T. Jones On January 14, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) addressed the 20th anniversary of the Center for the National Interest. In a 1,500 word address, Senator Paul positioned himself as … Read more

By Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/political-economic-and-security-situation-in-africa/ Reviewed by Renate Z. Coleshill, Foreign Service Officer, retired Thomas Joscelyn testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian … Read more

Review by Howard Cincotta Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University Press, 2013, Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-691-15567-8, pp. 740, $30 Hardcover, $23.50 E-Book (Kindle/Nook). Albert Hirschman (1915-2012) is probably the greatest economist you’ve never heard … Read more

Review by John H. Brown, Ph.D. Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion: Russia’s Influence Abroad by James Sherr, London: Royal Institute for International Affairs/Chatham House, 2013, ISBN 9781 86203 266 8, Paperback, 137 pp., $23.36  (Amazon) Soft power is “the ability to get … Read more

By June Teufel Dreyer, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute http://www.fpri.org/print/1900 Reviewed by Ambassador Joe O. Rogers Prof. Dreyer, a Professor of Political Science at the Univer­sity of Miami, presents a very good synopsis of the efforts that Xi Jinping … Read more

By Samuel Helfont, Associate Scholar in FPRI’s Program on the Middle East Text: https://www.fpri.org/articles/2013/12/geopolitics-sunni-shii-divide-middle-east SYMPOSIUM Review by Michael W. Cotter This lecture from an FPRI conference for teachers is well worth reading for two reasons. First, it provides an excellent, … Read more

by Godfrey Garner  The week ending January 11th, 2014 brought with it a metaphoric retraction of the curtain that obscures the Great and Powerful Wizard. Robert Gates memoir, ‘Duty’ went a long way toward clarifying suspicions, long held by those … Read more

Reviewed by James Abrahamson Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present by Max Boot, Liveright Publishing Corporation: New York, 2013, ISBN 978-0-87140-424-4, i-xxix, 750 pp., Hardcover, $35.00; paperback; $18.95; Kindle $13.75. Had Invisible … Read more

Reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner The Blood Telegram (Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide) by Gary J. Bass, Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2013, ISBN 0307700208, 537 pp., $30.00 (Hardcover), $11.99 (Kindle). It has been a long time since I … Read more

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Review by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor
The Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power, 1815-1848 by William Nester, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61234-605-2, 362 pp.

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Magnificent Delusions (Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding) by Husain Haqqani, Public Affairs: New York, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61039-317, 432 pp.

Review by David T. Jones

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Review by Csaba T. Chikes
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum, Anchor Reprint, 2013, ISBN-13: 978-1400095933, 640 pp.

Review by David T. Jones

Review by James L. Abrahamson

Reviewed by John Sylvester