A Cold War that Unleashed a Rising Sun
A Cold War that Unleashed a Rising Sun Review by John E. Van Sant America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan’s Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960. By Aaron Forsberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. … Read more
Post-Manhattan Project Whereabouts of Uncle Sam’s Nukes
Post-Manhattan Project Whereabouts of Uncle Sam’s Nukes Review by Robert S. Norris Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949 By James L. Abrahamson and Paul H. Carew. (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 181. $65 cloth.) This detailed account … Read more
Strategic Bombing: The Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow?
Strategic Bombing: The Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow? Review by Thomas E. Griffith, Jr Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 By Tami Davis Biddle. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. … Read more
Handler of the Spy Who Saved the World
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
Only in America
Only in America? Review by John M. Handley Code Name Kindred Spirit: Inside the Chinese Nuclear Espionage Scandal. By Notra Trulock. (San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003. Pp xvi-385, hardback.) How many times has one heard the expression “Only in America”? … Read more
An Agency ‘Guest’ of the Ayatollah
An Agency “Guest” of the Ayatollah Review by John D. Stempel In the Shadow of the Ayatollah: A CIA Hostage in Iran. By William J. Daugherty. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 288. $29.95 cloth.) “Daugherty’s first-hand account of … Read more
John Moncure Daniel: Dixie’s Dueling Diplomat and “Pen of Fire”
John Moncure Daniel: Dixie’s Dueling Diplomat and “Pen of Fire” Review by Jack Perry Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel. By Peter Bridges. (Kent & London: The Kent State University Press, 2002. Pp. 284. $28 Cloth.)“Daniel was. . . lucky … Read more
Uncle Sam and His Worlds To Restore
Uncle Sam and His Worlds To Restore Review by Alex Roland After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and, the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars. By G. John lkenberry. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 293. $55 cloth, $19.95 paper.) … Read more
Justice Begins at Home
Justice Begins at Home: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals Review by Scott L. Silliman Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. By Gary Jonathan Bass. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. 402. $45 cloth.)”Bass finds that … Read more
Review of One World: The Ethics of Globalization
Review Essay by Jack Perry One World: The Ethics of Globalization. by Peter Singer. Yale University Press. 235 pages. $21.95. Here is a different way of looking at the world and at the tumult of world affairs. Most of us have the … Read more
Flashbacks of a Diplomat’s Wife Reviewed
Flashbacks of a Diplomat’s Wife Reviewed Review by J. Edgar Williams Flashbacks of a Diplomat’s Wife. By Helga Ruge. (Chico, CA: Clay & Marshall Publishing Co., 2002. Pp. ii, 228. $15.95 paper.) This fascinating memoir of a Foreign Service family spans … Read more
Small Wars: Serving the National Interests of Pax Americana
Small Wars: Serving the National Interests of Pax Americana Review by Thomas E. Hanson The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power By Max Boot. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. xx, 410. $30 cloth.) “Boot… … Read more
The American Empire of “Openness”
Review by James L. Abrahamson American Empire: The Realities & Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy. By Andrew J. Bacevich. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 302. $29.95 cloth.) “Andrew Bacevich describes recent American efforts to create an informal empire … Read more
Hell on Earth: Life in Kim Il-Sung’s Gulag
Review by John M. Handley
Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. By Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot. Translated by Yair Reiner. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. xvi, 238.)
John Bull and Uncle Sam Grapple With South East Asian Nationalism
Review by Carl Fritz
Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965. By Matthew Jones. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 325.)
The Never Ending War Against Terrorism
Review by David W. Thornton Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Paul R. Pillar. (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 272. $26.95 cloth.) “In one fundamental respect, it can be argued that 9-11 did not contradict, but instead confirmed … Read more
Cursed is the Envoy Who Tries to Bring Peace to the Middle East
Review by William N. Dale
Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat Versus the Israeli General, Beirut 1982. By John Boykin. (Belmont, CA: Applegate Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 489.)
Review of two books on the Cold War, Nationalism, and Civil Rights
To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War. By John Fousek. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 253. $49.95 cloth. $18.95 paper.)
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. By Mary L. Dudziak. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 330. $39.50 cloth.)
Kyoto’s Fatally Flawed Fantasyland
Review by David W. Thornton
Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global WarmingThe Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming. By David G. Victor. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Pp.vii,178. $19.95 cloth.
“Offensive Realism”: The “Never-Ending Struggle for Power”
by Francis P. Sempa
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. By John J. Mearsheimer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. Pp. 555.