A Case Study of Cultural Diplomacy During the Cultural Revolution
by Francis B. Tenny

Review by Robert Earle The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy by George W. Liebmann, I.B. Taurus, ISBN-13-978-1848858695, 2012, 384 pp., $99.00. George Liebmann’s biography of John Negroponte is entitled The Last American … Read more

Review by Edward Marks
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan, ZED Books: London & New York , 2011, ISBN-13: 978-1848130050, 192 pp.

Review by Howard Cincotta
The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye, Jr., PublicAffairs/Perseus Book Group: New York, ISBN 978-1-58648-891-8 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-58648-892-5 (electronic), 2011, 300 pp.

Reviews by John M. Evans
The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity:The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire By Taner Akçam, ISBN-13-978-0691153339,Princeton University Press, 2012, 483 pp.
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials By Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam, ISBN-13-978-0857452511, Zoryan Institute (Berghahn Books), 2011, 363 pp.

Con la Creación de la CELAC se Confirma la Vocación Latinamericana de Multiplicar Foros con Escaso Futuro
By Elvio Baldinelli (Translation by J. Edgar Williams)

Review by Daniel Kurtzer
The Role of US Diplomacy in the Lead-Up to the Six Day War: Balancing Moral Commitments and National Interests by Zaki Shalom, Sussex Academic Press, ISBN-13-978-1845194680, 2012, 190 pp.

American Writers Who Were Diplomats by William Sommers The Writer as Diplomat – his dispatches read like a continued short story March 4, 1841 was the coldest – and totally unheated – inauguration day in U.S. history. Among its victims … Read more

by Yale Richmond

Reviewed by John H. Brown, PhD.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder, New York: Basic Books, 2010. ISBN-13-978-0-465-00239-9, hardcover 524 pp.

One Indelible Memory of Syria by Patricia Ann Liske We were returning to our post at Embassy Amman from a weekend excursion to Damascus in June, 1995, and I was riding in the middle car of our three-car caravan. My … Read more

by Steve Dobransky

Review by Donald Camp
Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asia Strategy by Jeff Bader, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, ISBN-13: 978-0815722427, 2012. 171 pp.