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Books of Note for February 2020

February 2020

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 Anarchy

November 2019

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

Books of Note September 2019

September 2019

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

Books of Interest

May 2019

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

Reimagining Pakistan

May 2019

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

Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience

February 2019

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

Books of Interest, February 1, 2019

February 2019

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

Fascism: A Warning

September 2018

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

FDR’s 12 Apostles

November 2007

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor
FDR’s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa. By Hal Vaughn (The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 2006. 311 pp. $24.95)