Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq
Review by John H. Brown
Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0195381351, 342 pp.

Review by John Sylvester
Kent E. Calder, Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S. Japan Relations , Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-14672-1, 292 pp.

How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
Review by Carlos G. P. Teixeira
Leslie H. Gelb, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy, New York: Harper, 2009, 352 pages, ISBN 978-0061714542

Review by Mark S. Langevin
Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, editors. Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0815702962 256pp.

Review by J. R. Bullington David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Oxford University Press, 2009, 346 pp, $27.95 This book is likely to emerge as one of the seminal works in … Read more

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, Yale Univ. Press, 1987, Republished 2009, Afterword copyright 2009, ISBN 978-0300139259, 261 pp.

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.Text Box:
Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua, by Allen Wells, Duke University Press, 2009, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-8223-4407-0

Review by Jeff Merrit, M.A.     James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, New York: Viking Adult, 2009; 416 pages, ISBN 978-0-670-02054-6; hardback, $27.95. James Mann’s The Rebellion of Ronald … Read more

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor Rufus Phillips, Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2008, 398 pp, $38.95 Ambassador Dick Holbrooke, as a newly-minted Foreign Service Officer in 1963, was assigned to … Read more

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
Angelo M. Codevilla, Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft, New York: Basic Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-465-00483-6, 280 pages

Review by Jeff Merrit, M.A.
James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, New York: Viking Adult, 2009; 416 pages, ISBN 978-0-670-02054-6

Review by John W. Coffey, Ph.D.
Peter W. Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009; 368 pages; ISBN 978-0-307-26979-9

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
Seyom Brown, Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States, Boulder: Paradigm, 2009, (187 pages of text plus endnotes and index), ISBN 978-1-59451-398-5

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor
Gordon Barrass, The Great Cold War: A Journey through the Hall of Mirrors, Stanford University Press, 2009, 496 pages

Reviewed by Paul H. Carew, Ph.D.
Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War, Yale University Press, 2008, pp 232

Review by J. R. Bullington, Editor
Stephen Kinzer, A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, pp 380

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
Colonel James L. Abrahamson, USA (Ret.) and Colonel Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., USA (Ret.) Editors, Leadership: Combat Leaders and Lessons, Bigfork, Montana: Stand Up America, USA, 2008; 184 pages plus 7 pages of biographical information on 15 contributors; ISBN 978-0-615-25574-3

Review 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.

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, 528 pp.

Reviewed by John Brown
Ali Fisher and Aurélie Bröckerhoff, Options for Influence: Global campaigns of persuasion in the new worlds of public diplomacy (London: Counterpoint, British Council, 2008), 62 pp