Reviewed by Stanton Jue Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China, Benjamin I. Page & Tao Xie,  Columbia Univ. Press: New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-231-15208-2 (cloth), 212 pp., $27.50 Living with the Dragon is … Read more

Review by Anthony C.E. Quainton
America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership, Robin Niblett (Editor), Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, May 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4051-9844-8, 296 pp.

Reviewed by John Coffey Richard H. Immerman, Empire for Liberty:  A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz, Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4008-3428-0 , 271 pp., $24.95 This volume provides an overview of American foreign … Read more

Review by James Schumaker
Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis by Harper Barnes, Southern Illinois University Press; 1st edition (2001); paperback edition (2010), ISBN-13: 978-1883982171, 528 pp.

Review by Dr. John M. Handley
The Icarus Syndrome, A History of American Hubris, by Peter Beinart; New York: Harper Collins, 2010, ; ISBN 978-0-06-145646-6, 496 pp.

Review by John H. Brown, Ph.D.
John Hughes, Islamic Extremism and the War if Ideas: Lessons from Indonesia, Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-8179-1164-5, 138 pp.

Review by Barry Fulton
Groupthink versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations, Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-231-14888-7, 304 pages

Reviewed by Colonel (USA, ret) James L. Abrahamson, Ph. D.
Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, New York: Encounter Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59403-377-3, 455 pages

Review by John Coffey
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray – And How to Return to Reality, Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2010, ISBN-13: 9780300137613, 344 pp.

Review by Ambassador (ret.) William A. Rugh, Ph.D.
The United States and Public Diplomacy: New Directions in Cultural and International History, edited by Kenneth A. Osgood and Brian C. Etheridge, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden, 2010, 380 pp.

Review by Michael Hornblow
Slovakia on the Road to Independence by Paul Hacker, Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN 978-0-27103623-6, 240 pages

Review by Norvell DeAtkine
Lee Smith, The Strong Horse; Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations, Doubleday: New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-51611-2, 239 pp.

Review by David Jones
Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History, John W. Limbert, United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, D.C., 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1601270436,215pp.

Review by Bruce Byers
Sofia Koutlaki, Among the Iranians: A Guide to Iran’s Culture and Customs, Intercultural Press: Boston, 2010, ISBN- 13:978-1931930901, 240 pp.

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
John F. Kennedy, World Leader by Stephen G. Rabe, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59797-148-5. 246 pp.

Review by Stanton Jue
Warren I. Cohen, America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, 5th edition, Columbia Univ. Press: New York, 2010, ISBN 078-0-231-15077-4, 326 pp.

Review by Benjamin L. Landis
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev; Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-16438-1, 548,

Review by Henry E. Mattox, Ph.D., Contributing Editor Fredrik Stanton, Great Negotiations: Agreements That Changed the Modern World, Westholme Publishing; 1st Edition (March 4, 2010), ISBN-13: 978-1594160998, 304 pp., $26 Independent scholar and former editor Fredrik Stanton has researched and … Read more

Review byWilliam A. Rugh
Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, The Future of Public Diplomacy: An Uncertain Fate, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill Academic, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-9004177208, 307 pages

Review by Hal Brandsimage
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Shooting Up: Counter-Insurgency and the War on Drugs, Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press. 2009, ISBN 978-0815703280, 273 pp.