by James L. Abrahamson

Review by June Kunsman
Jan Melissen and Ana Mar Fernandez, (Eds.) Consular Affairs and Diplomacy, Leyden, Netherlands: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-18876-1, 334 pp.

An Assessment of British Female Ambassadors in Overcoming Gender Heirarchy, 1990-2010
by Talyn Rahman

by Ambassador (ret) William Rugh, Ph.D. A distinguished retired diplomat with decades of experience in the region provides us with his look at the current turmoil in the Middle East, its promises and its pitfalls.–Ed. The events we have witnessed … Read more

Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox Curtis F. Jones, Divide and Perish: The Geopolitics of the Middle East, 2nd Edition, AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2010, ISBN-1449009034, 542 pp. This is a second, revised edition of Jones’ comprehensive and thoughtful, if sometimes controversial, … Read more

by David T. Jones

Review by Henry E. Mattox, Ph.D., Contributing Editor Fredrik Stanton, Great Negotiations: Agreements That Changed the Modern World, Westholme Publishing; 1st Edition (March 4, 2010), ISBN-13: 978-1594160998, 304 pp., $26 Independent scholar and former editor Fredrik Stanton has researched and … Read more

by Chas Freeman

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, Yale Univ. Press, 1987, Republished 2009, Afterword copyright 2009, ISBN 978-0300139259, 261 pp.

by Haviland Smith

by Andrew P. B. White

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The Alternative North America Goes to the Polls
by David. T. Jones

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.

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.

On the Cusp
by David T. Jones

Reviewed by John Brown Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2007. 400 pages, $27.95. Marcus Mabry, Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. New York: Modern Times/Rodale, 2007. 362 pages. … Read more

The editor reviews Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s valedictory article in Foreign Affairs, and offers comments. by J. R. Bullington, Editor Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has published a somewhat precocious valedictory in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs. Entitled … Read more

by Henry E. Mattox Many Americans hoped and even expected that American military withdrawal from Iraq would be well underway by now, but instead we had the “surge.” Looking back to the time of U.S. emergence as a world power, … Read more

by David T. Jones