by Jonathan B. Rickert

by Senator Chris Van Hollen

by John Blaney and Christopher Datta

by Mary Thompson-Jones

by Ambassador [ret] Jimmy Kolker

by Susan Clyde

American speaker programs were long a staple of US Information Agency (USIA) programs overseas. Not all went as planned.

New items for November 2019

by Peter Sufrin

by Ofer Israeli

by Dick Virden

by Michael McCarry

Review by John M. Handley
Raising the Flag: America’s First Envoys in Faraway Lands, by Peter D. Eicher: Potomac Books, 2018, 370 pages with end-notes and index. ISBN 978-1-61234-970-1.

from Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba
by Ambassador Vicki Huddleston
Copyright c 2018 by Vicki Huddleston. Published by arrangement with The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-4683-1579-0

Review by Gilbert Donahue
Fascism: A Warning. Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Harper Collins, 2018, 288 pages including index.

Review by J. R. Bullington
Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World. By Rick Barton. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2018. Pages: 312. ISBN-13: 978-1538113004 and ISBN-10: 1538113007

by Beatrice Camp

by Elizabeth Krijgsman

by Rick Barton

Review by Renee M. Earle
To the Secretary: Leaked Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect. ISBN 978-0-393-24658-2. W.W. Norton & Company. Mary Thompson-Jones

by Patrick Duddy Venezuela remains in crisis. Popular support for the so-called Bolivarian revolution and its socio-economic model known as twenty-first century socialism has eroded dramatically.  Polling suggests there is a near consensus among Venezuelans that conditions are bad and … Continued