Reconciling with a Former Enemy: Post-War Diplomacy between the US and Vietnam
November 2023
by Justin Ahn
Tag: South and Central Asia
U.S.-China Agricultural Dialogue in Des Moines Shows Potential for Improving Relations During a Critical Period
November 2022
by Kenneth Quinn
U.S. Relations With China: DACOR Conference Summary
November 2022
by Keith McCormick and Emma W. Sandifer As relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) loom ever larger for the U.S., DACOR’s annual conference in 2022 focused on “Balancing Competing Interests in U.S. Relations With China.” The Washington-based organization … Read more
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: (Dispatches from a Precarious State)
May 2021
Review by Jon P. Dorschner
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: (Dispatches from a Precarious State) By Declan Walsh
Spike Lee Brings Back Vietnam Memories of Race and the Bond in Combat
August 2020
by Kenneth M. Quinn
The Impolite American Consul: A Memoir of the 1966 Buddhist Struggle Movement in Hué
August 2020
by James R. Bullington
The Anarchy
November 2019
The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner
Reimagining Pakistan
May 2019
(Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State)
Review by Jon P. Dorschner
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
May 2019
Review by Donald Camp
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer
A New Cold War: Personal Reflections Regarding Russia’s Missed Opportunities with NATO, Ukraine and Its Western Neighbors
February 2019
by Keith C. Smith
U.S. Diplomatic Engagement and Cultural Heritage Protection
November 2018
by Larry Schwartz
Adapted from Newberry Series Lecture at Dacor-Bacon House
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018
Post-War Burma, a First-Hand Account from John Cady
November 2018
Excerpted with permission of Ohio University from “Contacts with Burma, 1935-1949: A Personal Account”.
Books of Interest Fall 2018
September 2018
Near Abroad, Thailand, The Road to Unfreedom, US Counterterrorism, In Praise of Blood, The Darkening Web, China’s Great Wall of Debt, The Peace Makers
The Doctor and the Saint
April 2018
Review by Jon Dorschner
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and “The Annihilation of Caste” by Arundhati Roy. Haymarket Books: May 2017. ISBN 978-1-60846-797-6. 171 pp.