Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa
Alexander James Dallas, An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War. Edinburgh, Scotland: Dunedin Academic Press. ISBN-13: 978-1906716288 2011. 169pp.

Review by June Kunsman
Jan Melissen and Ana Mar Fernandez, (Eds.) Consular Affairs and Diplomacy, Leyden, Netherlands: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-18876-1, 334 pp.

Reviews by John Handley
Decision Points by George W. Bush, New York: Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-307-59061-9, 497 pages
Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld, New York: Sentinel (the Penguin Group,) ISBN 978-1-59523-067-6, 815 pages

Review by Peter Beckman

by Peter T. Beckman

by Ambassador (ret.) Edward Marks In this fifth and last in a series of “letters” from West African postings in the 1977-1980 period, our correspondent looks at the relationship between the two former Portuguese colonies in which he served. –The … Read more

Reviewed by John Coffey Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State, New York: Penguin Press, ISBN 9781594202407, 2010, 288 pp., $27.95 Recognizing that the world is a dangerous place, Alexander Hamilton observed, “It is the … Read more

Review by Carolyn Pumphrey, Ph. D.
Rye Barcott, It Happened On the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace, Bloomsbury USA, ISBN-13: 978-1608192175, 2011, 352 pp.

Reviewed by Dr. John M. Handley
Present at the Footnote, Personal Commentary on American Diplomacy, by Henry E. Mattox, Washington, DC: Xlibris Corporation, 2010; ISBN 978-1-4535-3269-0; 206 pp.

Review by William A. Rugh

Review by Richard Gilbert
Borg, P., Carroll, M.,Kasdan, M., Wells, S. (editors), Answering Kennedy’s Call: Pioneering the Peace Corps in the Philippines, Peace Corps Writers Publishers, ISBN 13: 978-1935925019, 505 pp.

Reviewed by Richard Gilbert Borg, P., Carroll, M.,Kasdan, M., Wells, S. (editors), Answering Kennedy’s Call: Pioneering the Peace Corps in the Philippines, Peace Corps Writers Publishers, ISBN 13: 978-1935925019, 505 pp. Paperback, $25.00. After fifty years (1961-2011), the Peace Corps … Read more

Reviewed by John Coffey
John J. Mearsheimer, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), ISBN-13: 978-0199758739, 142 pp.

Reviewed by Marc E. Nicholson
Charles Kupchan, How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace, Princeton University Press 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4008- 3441-9, 448 pp.

Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox Curtis F. Jones, Divide and Perish: The Geopolitics of the Middle East, 2nd Edition, AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2010, ISBN-1449009034, 542 pp. This is a second, revised edition of Jones’ comprehensive and thoughtful, if sometimes controversial, … Read more

Review by Robert E. Gribbin
Filip Reyntjens The Great African War – Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN-13:978-0521111287, 340 pp.

Reviewed by John Handley
From Nyet to Da: Understanding the New Russia, by Yale Richmond, Boston: Intercultural Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-931930-59-8. 168 pp

Review by Norvell B. DeAtkine
Michael Radu, Europe’s Ghost; Tolerance, Jihadism, and the Crisis in the West. Encounter Books, New York, 2009, ISBN -13:978-I-59403-262-2, 773 pp.

Review by Theresa Chin Jones
Robert Bryce, Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, Public Affairs: Philadelphia, PA, ISBN- 13-978-1586487898, April 2010, 416p

Review by Dr. John M. Handley
British Diplomacy in Turkey: 1583 to the Present, by G. R. Berridge; Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17639-3. , 336 pages