SITREP: What We Talk About When We Talk About Brazil
by Dick VirdenBrazil: An introduction to your Olympic host Brazil has been much in the news these days, and not in a good way. It’s the epicenter of the horrific Zika plague, its economy is reeling, corruption is out of … Read more
Back Channel to Cuba
Review by Joe B. Johnson Back Channel to Cuba by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh, The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC, ISBN-13: 978-1469617633, 2014, 544 pp., $19.24 (Kindle), $25.82 (Hardcover). The highest-level official meeting of American … Read more
Preserving the Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region
By Thomas Donilon, Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Text: http://www.cfr.org/china/keynote-address-obama-china-preserving-rebalance/p33778 Review by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor Thomas Donilon of the Council on Foreign Relations spoke recently at the Brookings Institution about the Obama Administration’s rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region. … Read more
The Return of Antarctica and the Origins and Future of Potential Conflict
by Steve Dobransky
Marry an Asian Woman
by Larry Lesser I’m thinking about a man I saw when I was a consular officer in the American Embassy New Delhi back in the ’60s. He was an American citizen; I’ll call him Abner Strong. He came in one … Read more
U.S. Public Diplomacy: A Look to the Past
by Walter Roberts
US Strategic Alignments and Re-alignments in the Asia Pacific
by Vignesh Ram
Rare Earth Elements and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Critical Ascension of REEs in Global Politics and U.S. National Security
by Steve Dobransky
Canada’s Midterm Blues: The Harper Government Hits Rocks
Review by James L. Abrahamson
Rebalancing the U.S. Military in Asia and the Pacific
Review by John Sylvester
America and the Middle East
Review by David T. Jones
Sideways: America’s Pivot and Its Military Bases in the Asia Pacific
Review by John Handley
The Globalization of American Culture
by John Brown
Chocolate Nations
Review by Edward Marks
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan, ZED Books: London & New York , 2011, ISBN-13: 978-1848130050, 192 pp.
Military Security, Energy Resources, and the Emergence of the Northwest Passage: Canada’s Arctic Dilemma
by Steve Dobransky
American Sheikhs
Review by Curtis Jones
American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America’s Influence in the Middle East, By Brian VanDeMark, Prometheus Books: New York, ISBN- 978-1616144760, 2012, pp. 252
Assessing the Reporting Cable Fiasco
by Tom Homan
The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats
Reviewed by John H. Brown
The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats by Raymond F. Smith, Washington: Potomac Books Inc., 2011, ISBN-13: 978-1597977296, Paperback, 161 pp.
Alliance Politics in Asia
Reviewed by James W. White
Thomas J. Christensen, Worse Than A Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-14260-9, hard cover, (ISBN 978-0-691-14261-6 paperback), 2011, 306 pp.