Review by John Handley Doctrine, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How an Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher R. Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb, Strategic Perspective #11, Institute for National Strategic Studies (NISS), Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, … Read more

Review by Adam Clayton Powell III

China and Africa: A Century of Engagement by David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman, University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia PA 19104, ISBN 978-0-8122-4419-9, 523 pp.

Review by John Handley

Review by John H. Brown, Ph.D

Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy by Justin Hart, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978- 0-19-077794-5, hardcover, 279 pp.

Review by Amb. (ret.) Anthony C. E. Quainton

The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam by Akbar Ahmed, ISBN-13: 978-0815723783, Brookings Institution Press, 2013, 424 pp.

Review by Francis P. Sempa

Review by William A. Rugh
Scripting Middle East Leaders: The Impact of Leadership Perceptions on US and UK Foreign Policy, edited by Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey H. Michaels, ISDN 13: 978-1441191656: New York: Bloomsbury, 2013, 194 pp.

Review by John Sylvester

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Review by Jon P. Dorschner

Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India by Atul Kohli, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2012, ISBN 052-1-513-871, 264 pp.

Review by Amb. (Ret.) Cresencio Arcos

The Cuban Missile Crisis In American Memory: Myths Versus Reality by Sheldon M. Stern, Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA, ISBN-13: 978-0804783774, 2012, pp. 208

Review by Francis P. Sempa

Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. New York: Anchor Books, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-7858-5. 815 pp.

Review by Ted Wilkinson

Dolia Estévez, U.S. Ambassadors to Mexico: The Relationship Through Their Eyes, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-938027-09-3

Reviewed by Norvell DeAtkine

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Review by Andreas Ringl

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