The Last Secret: The Final Documents from the June Fourth Crackdown
Edited by Bao Pu

China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship
By Jean-Pierre Cabestan

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
By Toby Green

Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World
By Snigdha Poonam

Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion
By J.H. Elliott

Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientism, and the State of Indonesia
By Edward Espinall and Ward Berenschot

Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
By Kathryn Kikkink

Calm Before the Storm: Desert Storm Diaries and Other Stories
By Marlin Fitzwater

by Richard Combs

by Robert E. Gribbin

Compiled by Robert Gribbin

by Judith Heimann

by Mikael Barfod

by Ophir Falk

by Louis Sell

by Alon Ben-Meir

by Diane Johnston

by Richard Gilbert

by Hans Tuch

A Recipe Book. An Airlift. A Song.
By Prudence Bushnell (U.S. Ambassador, Retired)

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal By William J. Burns Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France By Christophe Guilluy Translated from the French by Malcom DeBevoise … Read more

(Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State)
Review by Jon P. Dorschner

Review by Donald Camp
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer

In February, Duke University Libraries celebrated the opening of the Jack and Rebecca Matlock Papers, an extensive record of a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service.

New items for May 2019

New items for February 2019

George H.W. Bush held diplomatic posts at the United Nations and in Beijing before becoming vice president and then president of the United States.  As U.S. Ambassador to the UN 1971-73, Bush said “I learned that the United Nations is … Read more