Books of Interest February 2023
Leadership By Henry Kissinger
State of Disaster By Maria Cristina Garcia
Nomad Century By Gaia Vince
Republics of Myth By Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman
The Story of Russia By Orlando Figes
Coalitions of the Weak By Victor C Shih
Backfire By Agathe Demarais
Spies, Lies and Algorithms: : The History and Future of American Intelligence By Amy Zegart
Ukrainians to Putin’s Empire: Hell No!
by Dick Virden
U.S.-China Agricultural Dialogue in Des Moines Shows Potential for Improving Relations During a Critical Period
by Kenneth Quinn
U.S. Relations With China: DACOR Conference Summary
by Keith McCormick and Emma W. Sandifer As relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) loom ever larger for the U.S., DACOR’s annual conference in 2022 focused on “Balancing Competing Interests in U.S. Relations With China.” The Washington-based organization … Read more
Retail Politics in Trinidad and Tobago
by Jonathan B. Rickert
Language and Cultural Immersion Build Effective Communication
by Bruce Byers
November 2022 Books of Interest
America’s Great-Power Opportunity by Ali Wyne
Cold War Radio by Mark G. Pomar
The Age of AI by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
Danger Zone by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley
Beef, Bible and Bullets by Richard Lapper
The Great Experiment by Yascha Mounk
The Power of Crisis by Ian Bremmer
August 2022
Commentary, Eyewitness, and books
Thoughts on Diplomacy from Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
Thoughts on Diplomacy from Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Editor’s note: In the introduction to her book “Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir”, former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch comments on the practice and importance of diplomacy. Excerpted by permission. Diplomacy is … Read more
Our National Devaluation of Diplomacy
by Thomas E. McNamara
Portuguese Diplomacy in Newark, New Jersey
by Jorge Marinho, Júlio Ventura, Guilherme Guimarães
Remembering Madeleine Albright and the Community of Freedom
“A Moment of Celebration and of Dedication” Prague, Czech Republic, July 14, 1997
Putin’s Challenge to NATO and to the Global Enterprise
by Thomas E. McNamara
Europe at War
by Robert Cox
Was NATO Expansion Really the Cause of Putin’s Invasion?
by Ken Moskowitz
Don’t Leave the Russian People Behind
by Renee Earle
America, You Better Believe That Africa Matters
by Charles Ray
Democracy in Africa is Like a Flashlight without Batteries
by Mark G. Wentling
Telling America’s Story in Communist Times
by Jonathan Rickert During my three tours of duty in communist Eastern Europe (USSR 1960s, Romania 1970s, and Bulgaria 1980s), U.S. diplomats were inhibited in their contacts with local citizens. Most of us spoke the local languages and longed to … Read more
