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No Enchanted Palace

March 2010

Review by John H. Brown
Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4008-3166-1, 236 pp

Arsenal of Democracy

March 2010

Review by John Coffey
Julian E. Zelizer, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security – From World War II to the War on Terrorism, New York: Basic Books, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0465015078 583 pp.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad U.S. Cell [1988-95]

February 2010

The Ideological Foundations of its Propaganda Strategy
Reviewed by Norvell DeAtkine
Tally Helfont: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad U.S. Cell [1988-95]: The Ideological Foundations of its Propaganda Strategy. Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; December 2009, 57 pp.

Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy

February 2010

Review by Dennis M. Murphy
Nancy Snow and Philip M. Taylor (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-95302-3, 408 pp.

Churchill

February 2010

Review by Francis P. Sempa
Paul Johnson, Churchill, New York: Viking, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-670-02105-5, 166 pp.

The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir

January 2010

Reviewed by Michael W. Cotter
Howard B. Schaffer, The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press; 2009 Hardcover edition ISBN 978-0-8157-0290-0, 272 pp.

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

January 2010

Review by Leonard J. Baldyga Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, New York: The Penguin Press HC; 2009, ISBN-10: 1594202044 and ISBN-13: 978-1594202049, $29.95, 528 pp. With the good fortune of having served in the country some … Read more

Journalism’s Roving Eye

November 2009

A History of American Foreign Reporting
Review by Michael Canning

bookJohn Maxwell Hamilton, Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2009, ISBN13: 978-0-8071-3474-0, 680 pp.

The Hawk and the Dove

November 2009

Paul Nitze, George Kennan and the History of the Cold War
Review by John Coffey
Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan and the History of the Cold War, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009, ISBN: 978-0805081428,403 pp.

The Cold War and the U.S. Information Agency

November 2009

American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945 – 1989
Review by Michael Schneider
Nicholas Cull, The Cold War and the U.S. Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945 – 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2009 Paperback edition, ISBN 13:9780521142830, 580 pp.

The Other War

November 2009

Winning and Losing in Afghanistan
Review by James Abrahamson
Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann, The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan. Forward by Bruce Reidel. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-59797-427-1, 245 pp. $27.50.

The Age of the Unthinkable

November 2009

Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
Review by Edward Marks
Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It, New York: Little, Brown and Company; 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0316118088, $25.99, 288 pp.

The Fourth Star

October 2009

Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
Review by David T. Jones
David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army, Crown Publishers, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-307-40906-5, pp. 328

A Foreign Service Primer

October 2009

Review by Richard Gilbert
Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie, Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service, Georgetown University Press, 2008, ISBN 13 978-1589012196, 266 pp.

War of Necessity, War of Choice

September 2009

A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
Review by William A. Rugh
Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009, ISBN 978-1416548024, pp. 336

Guerrilla Diplomacy

September 2009

Rethinking International Relations
Review by Peter R. Beckman
Daryl Copeland, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009; 311 pages, ISBN 978-58826-955-2

Winning Turkey

September 2009

Review by John Handley
Philip H. Gordon and Omer Taspinar; afterword by Soli Ozel, Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey can Revive a Fading Partnership, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8157-3215-0, pp. 115