The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age
By Elizabeth Shackelford
Review By Robert Whitehead

Back Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By Kim Ghattas
Review by Albadr AbuBaker Alshateri, Phd.

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
By Thomas Rid
Review by Michael Schoenfeld

U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century: Empowering Allies and Partners By Abraham M DenmarkAmerica in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy By Robert B. Zoellick
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III BY Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Away From Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West By Gilles Kepel and Translated by Henry Randolph
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944-45 By Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives By Philip N. Howard
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency By Mark Lynas

Reviewed by Christopher Murray

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017By Rashid Khalif;
Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique By Xu Jilin Edited and Translated by David Ownsby;
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II By Harvey Solomon;
The Kill Chain By Christian Brose;
Brazil Apart: 1964-2019 By Perry Anderson;
Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances By Mira Rapp-Hooper;
Why Nation-Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States By Keith W. Mines;
A Seat at the Table: Women, Diplomacy, and Lessons for the World By Susan Sloan

Modern Diplomacy in Practice; US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik; The Ambassadors: American’s Diplomats on the Front Lines; Maoism: A Global History; The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate; Extreme Economies: What life at the World’s Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future; Reclaiming Patriotism; Not Even Past

by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Renee M. Earle

From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide
By Joyce Leader

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyber War and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
By Andy Greenberg

Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
By Ronald C. Rosbottom

From Sadat to Saddam: The Decline of American Diplomacy in the Middle East
By David J. Dunford

Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
By Samuel Moyn

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
By Peter Hessler

Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
By Narges Bajoghli

Fearing the Worst: how Korea Transformed the Cold War
By Samuel F. Wells, Jr.

The Education of an Idealist by Samatha Power
reviewed by Donald Camp

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner

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

Compiled by Robert Gribbin

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 … Continued

(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

New items for May 2019

Review by Frances Duffy
Book : Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings by Prudence Bushnell

Escaping War and Waves By Olivier Kugler
The Virtual Weapon and International Order By Lucas Kello
The China Mission By Danel Kurtz-Phelan
Defeat is an Orphan By Myra Macdonald
Salman’s Legacy Edited By Madawi Al-Rasheed
Crashed By Adam Tooze
New Foreign Policy By Jeffrey D. Sachs
No Place for Russia By William H. Hill
End of an Era By Carl Minzner

Review by Gilbert Donahue
Fascism: A Warning. Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Harper Collins, 2018, 288 pages including index.