Review by John H. Brown, Ph. D.
Philip Seib, editor, Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-230-61744-5, 257 pp.

Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
Review by David T. Jones
David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army, Crown Publishers, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-307-40906-5, pp. 328

Review by Richard Gilbert
Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie, Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service, Georgetown University Press, 2008, ISBN 13 978-1589012196, 266 pp.

A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
Review by William A. Rugh
Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009, ISBN 978-1416548024, pp. 336

Rethinking International Relations
Review by Peter R. Beckman
Daryl Copeland, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009; 311 pages, ISBN 978-58826-955-2

Review by John Handley
Philip H. Gordon and Omer Taspinar; afterword by Soli Ozel, Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey can Revive a Fading Partnership, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8157-3215-0, pp. 115

Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq
Review by John H. Brown
Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0195381351, 342 pp.

Review by John Sylvester
Kent E. Calder, Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S. Japan Relations , Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-14672-1, 292 pp.

How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
Review by Carlos G. P. Teixeira
Leslie H. Gelb, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy, New York: Harper, 2009, 352 pages, ISBN 978-0061714542

Review by Mark S. Langevin
Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, editors. Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0815702962 256pp.

Review by J. R. Bullington David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Oxford University Press, 2009, 346 pp, $27.95 This book is likely to emerge as one of the seminal works in … Read more

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, Yale Univ. Press, 1987, Republished 2009, Afterword copyright 2009, ISBN 978-0300139259, 261 pp.

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.Text Box:
Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua, by Allen Wells, Duke University Press, 2009, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-8223-4407-0

Review by Jeff Merrit, M.A.     James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, New York: Viking Adult, 2009; 416 pages, ISBN 978-0-670-02054-6; hardback, $27.95. James Mann’s The Rebellion of Ronald … Read more

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor Rufus Phillips, Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2008, 398 pp, $38.95 Ambassador Dick Holbrooke, as a newly-minted Foreign Service Officer in 1963, was assigned to … Read more

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
Angelo M. Codevilla, Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft, New York: Basic Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-465-00483-6, 280 pages

Review by Jeff Merrit, M.A.
James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, New York: Viking Adult, 2009; 416 pages, ISBN 978-0-670-02054-6

Review by John W. Coffey, Ph.D.
Peter W. Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009; 368 pages; ISBN 978-0-307-26979-9

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
Seyom Brown, Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States, Boulder: Paradigm, 2009, (187 pages of text plus endnotes and index), ISBN 978-1-59451-398-5

Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor
Gordon Barrass, The Great Cold War: A Journey through the Hall of Mirrors, Stanford University Press, 2009, 496 pages