Review by Jon Dorschner   Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for my Land and my People by His Holiness the Dalai Lama HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2025   Voice for the Voiceless could not … Read more

  Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History By Vali Nasr Nature, Culture, And Inequality: A Comparative And Historical Perspective By Thomas Piketty, Translation by Willard Wood China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future By Ian Johnson Waste Land: … Read more

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The Divine Economy By Paul Seabright
Breaking the Mold By Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba
The Great Transformation By Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian
The Russian Way of Deterrence By Dimitry (Dima) Adamsky
Punishing Putin By Stephanie E. Baker
Some People Need Killing By Patricia Evangelista

The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World By Stuart E. Eisenstadt Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth by Karen Bakker Made in China: … Read more

Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict (Part of the series of The Miller Center Studies on the Presidency)

by Charles Trueheart
Reviewed by Bea Camp

The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China By Minxin Pei
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present By Fareed Zakaria
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq By Steve Coll
Spying through A Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence By Cecile Fabre
American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Practitioners as Change Agents in Foreign Relations By Bruce Gregory
Pakistan and American Diplomacy: Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame By Ted Craig

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

Reviewed by Louis Sell

Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
By Ian Johnson
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
By Martin Wolf
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night : A Uyghur Poet’s memoir of China’s Genocide
By Tahir Hamut Izgil
Translated by Joshua L. Freeman
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War
By Stacey Philbrick Yadav
The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars
By Kristina Stoical and Dmitry Uzlaner
Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism
By Javier Corrales
Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations
By Christina L. Davis
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
By Simon Sharpe

Reviewed by Sean Coleman

Red Carpet • Yemen in the Shadow of Transition
In The Nation’s Service • India is Broken
The Return of the Taliban • The Moralist International

Review by Fletcher M. Burton

A Professional Foreigner: Life in Diplomacy By Edward Marks Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, April 2023 304 pages Young American Foreign Service officers are accustomed to being teased by friends and relatives as to what they do in the “Foreign … Read more

Review by Jon P. Dorschner

Leadership By Henry Kissinger
State of Disaster By Maria Cristina Garcia
Nomad Century By Gaia Vince
Republics of Myth By Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman
The Story of Russia By Orlando Figes
Coalitions of the Weak By Victor C Shih
Backfire By Agathe Demarais
Spies, Lies and Algorithms: : The History and Future of American Intelligence By Amy Zegart

America’s Great-Power Opportunity by Ali Wyne
Cold War Radio by Mark G. Pomar
The Age of AI by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
Danger Zone by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley
Beef, Bible and Bullets by Richard Lapper
The Great Experiment by Yascha Mounk
The Power of Crisis by Ian Bremmer

The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present By Serhii Plokhy
Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History By Yuri Kostenko, Translated by Svitlana Krasynska
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate By M.E. Sarotte
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel By Kati Marton
The World According to China By Elizabeth C. Economy
Making a Killing: States, Banks, and Terrorism By Ian Michael Oxnevad
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War By Nicholas Mulder
Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age By Shruti Kapila

Review by Desaix Myers
The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World by John Norris