Review by Stanton Jue
Warren I. Cohen, America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, 5th edition, Columbia Univ. Press: New York, 2010, ISBN 078-0-231-15077-4, 326 pp.

Review by Benjamin L. Landis
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev; Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-16438-1, 548,

Review by Henry E. Mattox, Ph.D., Contributing Editor Fredrik Stanton, Great Negotiations: Agreements That Changed the Modern World, Westholme Publishing; 1st Edition (March 4, 2010), ISBN-13: 978-1594160998, 304 pp., $26 Independent scholar and former editor Fredrik Stanton has researched and … Read more

Review byWilliam A. Rugh
Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, The Future of Public Diplomacy: An Uncertain Fate, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill Academic, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-9004177208, 307 pages

Review by Hal Brandsimage
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Shooting Up: Counter-Insurgency and the War on Drugs, Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press. 2009, ISBN 978-0815703280, 273 pp.

Review by John H. Brown
Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4008-3166-1, 236 pp

Review by John Coffey
Julian E. Zelizer, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security – From World War II to the War on Terrorism, New York: Basic Books, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0465015078 583 pp.

Review by Daniel A. Rubin
Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth Century Latin America, Dennis Merrill, (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 327 pp

The Ideological Foundations of its Propaganda Strategy
Reviewed by Norvell DeAtkine
Tally Helfont: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad U.S. Cell [1988-95]: The Ideological Foundations of its Propaganda Strategy. Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; December 2009, 57 pp.

Reviewed by John H. Brown, Ph. D. Constantine Pleshakov, There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-374-28902-7, 304 pp. $26.00 “[F]reedom and bread enough … Read more

by James L. Abrahamson

Review by Dennis M. Murphy
Nancy Snow and Philip M. Taylor (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-95302-3, 408 pp.

Review by Francis P. Sempa
Paul Johnson, Churchill, New York: Viking, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-670-02105-5, 166 pp.

Reviewed by Michael W. Cotter
Howard B. Schaffer, The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press; 2009 Hardcover edition ISBN 978-0-8157-0290-0, 272 pp.

Review by Leonard J. Baldyga Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, New York: The Penguin Press HC; 2009, ISBN-10: 1594202044 and ISBN-13: 978-1594202049, $29.95, 528 pp. With the good fortune of having served in the country some … Read more

A History of American Foreign Reporting
Review by Michael Canning

bookJohn Maxwell Hamilton, Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2009, ISBN13: 978-0-8071-3474-0, 680 pp.

Paul Nitze, George Kennan and the History of the Cold War
Review by John Coffey
Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan and the History of the Cold War, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009, ISBN: 978-0805081428,403 pp.

American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945 – 1989
Review by Michael Schneider
Nicholas Cull, The Cold War and the U.S. Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945 – 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2009 Paperback edition, ISBN 13:9780521142830, 580 pp.

Winning and Losing in Afghanistan
Review by James Abrahamson
Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann, The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan. Forward by Bruce Reidel. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-59797-427-1, 245 pp. $27.50.

Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
Review by Edward Marks
Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It, New York: Little, Brown and Company; 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0316118088, $25.99, 288 pp.