Review by Francis Sempa

Reviews by Michael W. Cotter and by David C. Litt

America’s Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st Century Diplomacy by Nicholas Kralev, Create Space publishing, ISBN-13-978-1466446564, 2012, 232 pp., $24.99 (trade paperback), $9.99 (Kindle)

Review by James L. Abrahamson The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism, byJon B. Perdue. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2012. ISBN-978-1-59797-704-3, 263 p. $29.95 When younger readers, those not yet drawing … Read more

Review by David Beechey
The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent by J. C. A. Stagg, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2012, ISBN 978-0-521-72686-3, 216 pp.

Review by Michael Schneider
American Public Opinion on the Iraq War by Ole Holsti, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 9780472034802, pp. 238

Review by Michael W. Cotter
U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What by Michael B. Kraft and Edward Marks, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-1-4398-5143-2, 347 pp.

Review by Alan Kotok
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War, Edited by Richard Sobel, Peter Furia, and Bethany Barratt, Potomac Books: Dulles, VA, ISBN-13: 978-1-59797-492-9, 2012, 322 pp.

Review by Howard Cincotta The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security and The Map of the Future by P.H. Liotta and James F. Miskel, Potomac Books: Dulles, Virginia, ISBN 978-1-59797-551-3 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-61234-107-1 (electronic), 2012, 250 pp., $19.97 hardcover, $16.47 … Read more

Review by Francis P. Sempa Joel Barlow: American Diplomat and Nation Builder by Peter P. Hill, Potomac Books, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-1-59797-682-4, 271 pp., $34.95. Joel Barlow strove to be America’s epic poet, but circumstances determined that instead he would become … Read more

Review by Mark Dillen
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Knopf: New York, 2012, ISDN-13: 978-0307957146, 384 pp.

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia, by Angus Roxburgh; New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78076-016-2, 337 pp.

Review by John Coffey
Charles A. Kupchan, No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13-978-0199739394, 2012, 258 pp.

Born under an assumed name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter by Sara Mansfield Taber, Potomac Books Inc., ISBN13: 978- 1597976985,2012, 396 pp.

Review by James L. Abrahamson, Contributing Editor
Richard Hobbs, Death by a Thousand Cuts: Islam, Fiscal Irresponsibility, and other Threats to Destroy America, Sparks: Nevada, ColDoc Publishing, ISBN-10: 0-964-7788-8-2, 2012. 448 pp.

Review by James W. White
The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15924-1 (hardcover), 978-0-231-52819-1 (ebook), xiii+295 pp.

Review by John Coffey
RyanRobert J. Lieber, Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States Is Not Destined to Decline, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN-13: 9781107010680, 180 pp.

Review by Martin Wenick
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David Scheffer, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0691140155, 570 pp.

Review by Anthony C. E. Quainton
The Last Three Feet: Case Studies in Public Diplomacy, edited by William P. Kiehl, Public Diplomacy Council/PDWorldwide, 2012, ISBN-13: 9781478112952, 196 pp.

Review by Robert Earle The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy by George W. Liebmann, I.B. Taurus, ISBN-13-978-1848858695, 2012, 384 pp., $99.00. George Liebmann’s biography of John Negroponte is entitled The Last American … Read more

Review by Edward Marks
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan, ZED Books: London & New York , 2011, ISBN-13: 978-1848130050, 192 pp.