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 author has long experience in the Middle East and brings his insights to bear in consider-ing the wisdom of taking military action against Saddam’s Iraq, as well as addressing the in-creasingly difficult problem of how to finish the task … Read more

The author, a veteran observer of the international political scene, proposes a different solution to nation building in Iraq: a government based on control dispersed through provincial centers. As the time grows close for the scheduled transfer of power, Dr. … Read more

The author, a retired senior U. S. diplomat, considers Washington’s policy toward Israel in the context of what he sees as an “Israel, right or wrong” perspective. He holds that this outlook goes up against a Middle Eastern obsession with … Read more