Review by Howard Cincotta
The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye, Jr., PublicAffairs/Perseus Book Group: New York, ISBN 978-1-58648-891-8 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-58648-892-5 (electronic), 2011, 300 pp.

Reviews by John M. Evans
The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity:The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire By Taner Akçam, ISBN-13-978-0691153339,Princeton University Press, 2012, 483 pp.
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials By Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam, ISBN-13-978-0857452511, Zoryan Institute (Berghahn Books), 2011, 363 pp.

Review by Daniel Kurtzer
The Role of US Diplomacy in the Lead-Up to the Six Day War: Balancing Moral Commitments and National Interests by Zaki Shalom, Sussex Academic Press, ISBN-13-978-1845194680, 2012, 190 pp.

Reviewed by John H. Brown, PhD.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder, New York: Basic Books, 2010. ISBN-13-978-0-465-00239-9, hardcover 524 pp.

Review by Donald Camp
Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asia Strategy by Jeff Bader, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, ISBN-13: 978-0815722427, 2012. 171 pp.

Review by James W. White
China Hand: An Autobiography by John Paton Davies, Jr., Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 978-0-8122-4401-4, 2012, 351 pp.

Review by Curtis Jones
American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America’s Influence in the Middle East, By Brian VanDeMark, Prometheus Books: New York, ISBN- 978-1616144760, 2012, pp. 252

Review by John H. Brown
The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond. By Hannah Gurman, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-231-15872-5, Cloth, 280 pp.

Review by David C. Litt Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban, By Douglas A. Wissing. New York: Prometheus Books, 2012, ISBN: 978-1616146030, 375 pp. $25.00 Afghanistan was the war of necessity. Our intervention should have been the … Read more

Review by David Beechey
A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East 1914-1918, By James Barr, W. W. Norton & Company: N.Y., ISBN 978-0-398-07065, 2012, 464 pp.

Review by Dr. John Handley
Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft, by Allen C. Lynch, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59797-298-7, 184 pp.

Review by David T. Jones
Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War, by Eliot A. Cohen, Free Press, New York, NY, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7432-4990-4.pp.

Review by Anthony C. E. Quainton
American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination by Barry A. Sanders, Potomac Books: Washington, DC, 2011, ISBN: 978-1597976817, 240 pp.

Review by John Coffey

Review by Matt Armstrong
Leading the Narrative: The Case for Strategic Communication by Mari Eder, Naval Institute Press, 2011, ISBN: 9781612510477, 152 pp.

Review by Dennis M. Murphy
Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans: The Brcko Experience by Robert William Farrand. With Allison Frendak-Blume, Rowland and Littlefield: Lanham, MD, ISBN: 978-1-4422-1235-0, 2011. 310 pp.

Reviewed by John Coffey
A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia by Aaron L. Friedberg, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, ISBN13- 978-0393068283, 384 pp.

Reviewed by Steve Dobransky
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN-13: 978-0374227340, 2011, 608 pp.

Review by James Abrahamson
Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Germany: A Combat Soldier’s Journey through the Second World War. By Francis P. Sempa. (Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2011. Pp. x, 102.

Reviewed by John H. Brown
The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats by Raymond F. Smith, Washington: Potomac Books Inc., 2011, ISBN-13: 978-1597977296, Paperback, 161 pp.