Reviewed by Paul H. Carew, Ph.D.
Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War, Yale University Press, 2008, pp 232

Review by J. R. Bullington, Editor
Stephen Kinzer, A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, pp 380

Review by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
Colonel James L. Abrahamson, USA (Ret.) and Colonel Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., USA (Ret.) Editors, Leadership: Combat Leaders and Lessons, Bigfork, Montana: Stand Up America, USA, 2008; 184 pages plus 7 pages of biographical information on 15 contributors; ISBN 978-0-615-25574-3

Review 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, 528 pp.

Reviewed by John Brown
Ali Fisher and Aurélie Bröckerhoff, Options for Influence: Global campaigns of persuasion in the new worlds of public diplomacy (London: Counterpoint, British Council, 2008), 62 pp

Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by J. R. Bullington
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, Basic Books, 2008, pp 291

by J. R. Bullington

Review by John Coffey
Andrew J. Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008), 206 pp.

Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox, contributing editor
Amatai Etzioni, Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2007, 307 pages.

Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
John W. Jandora, States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic Crisis, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International, 2008 [ISBN 978-0-313-35590-5] 91 pages.

Review by Ambassador (ret.) Michael W. Cotter
James F. Dobbins, After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan, Dulles, VA, Potomac Books, 2008. Pp. viii, 168.

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Andrew Dorman and Greg Kennedy, Eds. War & Diplomacy: From World War I to the War on Terrorism. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2008, 245 pp.

Review by Richard Gilbert
Jean M. Wilkowski, Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service, University of Notre Dame Press (2008), 352 pp.
Robert F. Ober, Jr., Tchaikovsky 19, a Diplomatic Life behind the Iron Curtain, Xlibris Corporation (2008), 480 pp.

Reviewed by Ambassador (ret.) Edward Marks
Michael A. Palmer, The Last Crusade, Potomac Books, 2008, 273 pp.

Review by John W. Coffey
Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), 292 pp.

Review by Colonel James L. Abrahamson, PhD.
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy, New York and London: Encounter Books, 2008 (ISBN 978-159403213-4), vi, 352 pages

Review by Lt. B.J. Armstrong, USN
Bruce A. Elleman, Waves of Hope: The U.S. Navy’s Response to the Tsunami in Northern Indonesia (Newport Paper #28), Naval War College Press, Newport RI, 2007. 134 pp.

A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service
Review by Michael Hornblow
Living Diplomatically: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service, by William N. Dale, Hamilton Books, 71 pages

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