Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by J. R. Bullington
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, Basic Books, 2008, pp 291

Review by John Coffey
Andrew J. Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008), 206 pp.

Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox, contributing editor
Amatai Etzioni, Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2007, 307 pages.

Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
John W. Jandora, States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic Crisis, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International, 2008 [ISBN 978-0-313-35590-5] 91 pages.

Review by Ambassador (ret.) Michael W. Cotter
James F. Dobbins, After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan, Dulles, VA, Potomac Books, 2008. Pp. viii, 168.

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Andrew Dorman and Greg Kennedy, Eds. War & Diplomacy: From World War I to the War on Terrorism. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2008, 245 pp.

Review by Richard Gilbert
Jean M. Wilkowski, Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service, University of Notre Dame Press (2008), 352 pp.
Robert F. Ober, Jr., Tchaikovsky 19, a Diplomatic Life behind the Iron Curtain, Xlibris Corporation (2008), 480 pp.

Reviewed by Ambassador (ret.) Edward Marks
Michael A. Palmer, The Last Crusade, Potomac Books, 2008, 273 pp.

Review by John W. Coffey
Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), 292 pp.

Review by Colonel James L. Abrahamson, PhD.
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy, New York and London: Encounter Books, 2008 (ISBN 978-159403213-4), vi, 352 pages

Review by Lt. B.J. Armstrong, USN
Bruce A. Elleman, Waves of Hope: The U.S. Navy’s Response to the Tsunami in Northern Indonesia (Newport Paper #28), Naval War College Press, Newport RI, 2007. 134 pp.

A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service
Review by Michael Hornblow
Living Diplomatically: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service, by William N. Dale, Hamilton Books, 71 pages

Reviewed by Robert Rayle Bayard Stockton, Flawed Patriot: The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey, Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, 357 pages, $28.95 Bill Harvey was arguably America’s most competent and effective intelligence and counter-intelligence officer of the past … Read more

Reviewed by David Criekemans
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. New York: Basic Books, 2007, 234 pp.

Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D.

Uneasy Neighbo(u)rs: Canada, The USA and the Dynamics of State, Industry, and Culture by David Jones and David Kilgour, Ontario, Canada: John Wiley and Sons, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-470-15306-2) 314 pages

Reviewed by John W. Coffey
Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 116 pp.

Reviewed by John Brown Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2007. 400 pages, $27.95. Marcus Mabry, Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. New York: Modern Times/Rodale, 2007. 362 pages. … Read more

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
US Foreign Policy and Islamist Politics, by Ahmad S. Moussalli, Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-8130-3149-1), 225 pages

How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance
Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox, Contrib. Ed.
Michael H. Hunt, THE AMERICAN ASCENDANCY: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. 2007. Illus. 405 pages.

The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
Reviewed by James L. Abrahamson, contributing editor
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation. By Strobe Talbott (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. Pp. viii, 479