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February 2024

February 2024

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The Editor’s Page

February 2024

Raymond F. Smith   The opening article in this issue’s Commentary section describes a Soviet deputy foreign minister “gifting” the Brezhnev doctrine to then-US ambassador Jack Matlock during Christmas season, 1989. Matlock describes the Brezhnev doctrine and then details how … Read more

Books of Interest February 2024

February 2024

Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World By Joshua Kurlantzick
American Presidents in Diplomacy and War: Statecraft, Foreign Policy, and Leadership By Thomas R. Parker
The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement By Mahnaz Afkhami
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain By Julian Jackson
Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise By Susan L. Shirk
The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States: Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective By Katarina Natter

November 2023

November 2023

A church, a mosque, a museum, and then a mosque again; Istanbul’s Hagia Sofia reflects Turkiye’s tumultuous history. The Editor’s Page Commentary Turkiye’s First 100 Years by W. Robert Pearson PEPFAR and the Future of US Responses to International Medical … Read more