The Covert Confederacy Abroad
Review by Troy Kickler
Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad. By Edwin De Leon. Edited by William C. Davis. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 224. $35 cloth.)
Lincoln, London and Emancipation Diplomacy
Review by Martin Crawford
Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War By Howard Jones. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 236. $35 cloth.)
The Father of Containment Speaks!
Review by Anders Stephanson
Interviews with George F. Kennan. Edited by T. Christopher Jespersen. (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Pp. 224. $35 cloth.)
Lessons from Vietnam: Don’t Cut and Run
by Michael Cotter
Escape With Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam. By Ambassador (ret.) Francis Terry McNamara. (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 1997. Pp. xii, 218. $16.95 paper.)
Attack on the Liberty: Tragic Error or Premeditated Assault?
by William Dale
The Liberty Incident. The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship By A. Jay Cristol. ( Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, Inc., 2002. Pp. xx, 293. $27.50 cloth.)
Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
Review by Francis P. Sempa
Paul Kengor, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. (New York: Regan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, 2006, pp. xvi, 412, notes, index, $29.95. cloth).
It’s the Culture, Comrade!
Review by Jack R. Perry
Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. By Yale Richmond. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $35 cloth.)
Churchillian Cold War Diplomacy: Putting Britannia First
Review by Jacyln Stanke
Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. by Klaus Larres. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002,. Pp. xxii, 583.)
Uncle Sam: A Sheriff, Not an Emperor
Review by Francis P. Sempa
The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. 195.)
Keys to Global Success
. KEYS TO GLOBAL SUCCESS: CULTURE & IDEALS, NOT “BLOOD & IRON!” Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (New York: Public Affairs, 2004. Pp. xvi, 191. $25 cloth.) Review by James L. … Read more
An Assessment: The Opportunity
Special Review: An Assessment by William C. Harrop The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course by Richard N. Haass, (New York, Public Affairs (Perseus Books Group, 2005).“It is somehow troubling that Richard Haass remained almost four years as director of policy planning … Read more
A well told tale of intrigue
Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more
English Speaking Only Spies Won’t Do
Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more
Rainbow: War Plans that Worked
Rainbow: War Plans That Worked! Review by James L. Abrahamson The Road to Rainbow: Army Planning for Global War, 1934-1940. By Henry G. Gole. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 224. $34.95 cloth.)“In the years preceding U.S. entry into … Read more
Vietnam and Beyond: A Foggy Bottom View
Review by William Dale
Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education. By Robert Hopkins Miller. (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press; ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series and the Modern Southeast Asia Series, 2002, Pp. xix, 247. $36.50 cloth.
Dennis Ross: The Very Long, Very Hard Road to Middle East Peace
Review by Robert Chira
Review of Blix’s Disarming Iraq
Review of Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix Review by Bob Chira Disarming Iraq. By Hans Blix. (Pantheon Books, New York 2004, Pp. 304, hardcover, $24.) Hans Blix, the former chief of the United Nation’s chemical and biological weapons inspection agency charged with verifying … Read more
Foreign Policy is Important, but This Book Isn’t
A modified version of this review appeared in the Foreign Service Journal of January 2004.American Diplomacy is indebted to that publication and,the reviewer for permission to republish the material. Amb. Peck, a thirty-two year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, retired in the … Read more
The Hegemonic Demands of Pax Americana
The Hegemonic Demands of Pax Americana Review by Jim Abrahamson Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. By Francis P. Sempa. (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Pp. vii, 124. $29.95 cloth.) The Eurasian balance of power being of everlasting … Read more
The Blessings of Globalization –“Done Right”
The Blessings of Globalization–“Done Right” Review by Carl Fritz Globalization and Its Discontents. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Pp. xxii, 288. $15.95 paper.) Stiglitz believes globalization is good if done right; removal of free … Read more