Category: Commentary
The Ambassadors: Thinking About Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times
Review by Fletcher M. Burton
Books of Interest, February 2022
Global Development and Human Rights: The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond by Paul Nelson
Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century by Joshua L. Cherniss
Negotiating the New START Treaty by Rose Gottemoeller
Diplomacy and the Future of World Order By Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, Editors
The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns
Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World Edited by Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, Emilie Kimball
Transforming Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” into Farm Fields: American Diplomacy and Combatting Genocide
by Kenneth Quinn
American Leadership and a Global Offensive Against COVID
by John Blaney and Christopher Datta
Why Nation-Building Matters
Review by Renee M Earle
Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States by Keith W. Mines
Books of Interest
The Gun, The Ship, and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World By Linda Colley
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad By Michela Wrong
From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party By Tony Saich
Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice By Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden
Under Beijing’s Shadow: Southeast Asia’s China Challenge By Murray Hiebert
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order By Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
25th Anniversary Webinar
“How Does U.S. Diplomacy Benefit Americans?”
Playback of webinar, contributor information
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Virtual discussion presented by the American Diplomacy Journal and the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
The Challenge of Anarchy: Introduction
Increased refugee flows from the southern hemispheres and the Middle East impact not only immediate neighbors; but threaten political dialogue, economics and security in Europe, Russia, China. and the United States.
How can our national governments and the international community successfully address this challenge?
On American Diplomacy and the Disorderly Oscillation of World Orders
by Chas W. Freeman, Jr.