Review by Francis P. Sempa
The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. 195.)

. KEYS TO GLOBAL SUCCESS: CULTURE & IDEALS, NOT “BLOOD & IRON!” Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (New York: Public Affairs, 2004. Pp. xvi, 191. $25 cloth.) Review by James L. … Read more

Special Review: An Assessment by William C. Harrop The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course by Richard N. Haass, (New York, Public Affairs (Perseus Books Group, 2005).“It is somehow troubling that Richard Haass remained almost four years as director of policy planning … Read more

Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more

Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more

Rainbow: War Plans That Worked! Review by James L. Abrahamson The Road to Rainbow: Army Planning for Global War, 1934-1940. By Henry G. Gole. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 224. $34.95 cloth.)“In the years preceding U.S. entry into … Read more

Review by William Dale
Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education. By Robert Hopkins Miller. (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press; ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series and the Modern Southeast Asia Series, 2002, Pp. xix, 247. $36.50 cloth.

Review by Robert Chira

Review of Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix Review by Bob Chira Disarming Iraq. By Hans Blix. (Pantheon Books, New York 2004, Pp. 304, hardcover, $24.) Hans Blix, the former chief of the United Nation’s chemical and biological weapons inspection agency charged with verifying … Read more

A modified version of this review appeared in the Foreign Service Journal of January 2004.American Diplomacy is indebted to that publication and,the reviewer for permission to republish the material. Amb. Peck, a thirty-two year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, retired in the … Read more

The Hegemonic Demands of Pax Americana Review by Jim Abrahamson Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. By Francis P. Sempa. (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Pp. vii, 124. $29.95 cloth.) The Eurasian balance of power being of everlasting … Read more

The Blessings of Globalization–“Done Right” Review by Carl Fritz Globalization and Its Discontents. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Pp. xxii, 288. $15.95 paper.) Stiglitz believes globalization is good if done right; removal of free … Read more

A Cold War that Unleashed a Rising Sun Review by John E. Van Sant America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan’s Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960. By Aaron Forsberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. … Read more

Strategic Bombing: The Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow? Review by Thomas E. Griffith, Jr Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 By Tami Davis Biddle. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. … Read more

Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more

Only in America? Review by John M. Handley Code Name Kindred Spirit: Inside the Chinese Nuclear Espionage Scandal. By Notra Trulock. (San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003. Pp xvi-385, hardback.) How many times has one heard the expression “Only in America”? … Read more

An Agency “Guest” of the Ayatollah Review by John D. Stempel In the Shadow of the Ayatollah: A CIA Hostage in Iran. By William J. Daugherty. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 288. $29.95 cloth.) “Daugherty’s first-hand account of … Read more

John Moncure Daniel: Dixie’s Dueling Diplomat and “Pen of Fire” Review by Jack Perry Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel. By Peter Bridges. (Kent & London: The Kent State University Press, 2002. Pp. 284. $28 Cloth.)“Daniel was. . . lucky … Read more

Uncle Sam and His Worlds To Restore Review by Alex Roland After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and, the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars. By G. John lkenberry. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 293. $55 cloth, $19.95 paper.) … Read more

Justice Begins at Home: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals Review by Scott L. Silliman Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. By Gary Jonathan Bass. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. 402. $45 cloth.)”Bass finds that … Read more