Reviewed by John Coffey
Allen C. Lynch, Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft, Potomac Books: Washington, DC, ISBN 13- 978-1-59797-298-7, 2011, 184 pp.

Review by Curtis F. Jones
The Middle East and the United States: History, Politics and Ideologies, Fifth Edition, Edited by David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas. Westview Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 978081334529, 540 pp.

Review by William P. Kiehl, Ed.D.
Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security by Swanee Hunt, Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2011, ISBN 13- 978-0822349754, 296 pp.

Reviewed by Mark E. Dillen
The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen, Public Affairs, 2011. ISBN 13-978-1586487638, 912 pp.

Reviewed by James W. White
William Michael Morgan, Pacific Gibraltar: US-Japanese Rivalry Over the Annexation of Hawaii, 1885-1898. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, ISBN 978-1-59114-529-5, 2011, 330 pp.

Reviewed by Michael Butler Erik Larson. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin. New York: Crown, 2011. 448 pp., $13.50 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ambassadorial appointments included the highly successful (Laurence Steinhardt), the able … Read more

Reviewed by Amb. (ret.) Greta N. Morris
Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement by Douglas M. Johnston, Jr., NY: Praeger Security International, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-313-39145-3, pp.283

Review by John H. Brown, Ph.D.
Peter Van Buren, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, New York Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9436-7 Hardback, 288 pp.

Reviewed by Norvell “Tex” DeAtkine and David T. Jones
Jack O’Connell with Vernon Loeb, King’s Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, W.W.Norton and Company, New York, New York, 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-06334-9. 752 pp.

Review by John Sylvester
Henry Kissinger, On China, The Penguin Press: N.Y., 2011, ISBN 13: 978-1594202711, 608 pp.

Reviewed by David Beechey
David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2011. ISBN: 9780674062269 752 pp.

Reviewed by James W. White
Thomas J. Christensen, Worse Than A Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-14260-9, hard cover, (ISBN 978-0-691-14261-6 paperback), 2011, 306 pp.

Review by Ambassdor Mark Palmer
Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961, Putnam: N.Y., 2011, ISBN: 9781101505625, 608 pp.

Review by William P. Kiehl
The Practice of Public Diplomacy: Confronting Challenges Abroad, Edited by William A. Rugh, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, March 2011, ISBN: 978-0-230-11322-0, 280 pp.

Reviewed by John H. Brown, Ph.D.
Thomas Albert Howard, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN13: 978-0-19-956551-1 Hardback, 256 pp.

Review by Michael W. Cotter
Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington Rules: America’s Path To Permanent War, N.Y, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 978-0-8050- 9141-0 2010. 250pp.

Review by Anthony C. E. Quainton
America’s Misadventures in the Middle East, Chas W. Freeman Jr., Just World Books, 2010, ISBN 13: 978-1535982012, 230 pp.

Reviewed by James L. Bullock Roy R. Andersen; Robert F. Seibert; Jon G. Wagner, Politics and Change in the Middle East, Tenth Edition, Longman (an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc. of Glenview, Illinois), 2012, ISBN-13 978-0-205-08399-2;,402 pp., $65.00 Politics and … Read more

Review by Michael Schneider, Ph.D.
Trials of Engagement: The Future of US Public Diplomacy, Ed. By Ali Fisher and Scott Lucas Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden- Boston, 2011, ISBN 13-978-9004179400, 312 pp.

Reviewed by David Beechey Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat – Good and Evil in World War II, Harper Collins, ISBN-13: 9780060580971, 672 pp., 2011, $29.99 Americans like to think of the Second World War as “The Good War” and after reading … Read more