Tag: East Asia Pacific
Foreign Policy Begins at Home
Two Reviews by Sol Schindler and by John Coffey
Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order by Richard N. Hass, Basic Books, 2013, ISDN 13: 978-0465057986, 208 pp
Sideways: America’s Pivot and Its Military Bases in the Asia Pacific
Review by John Handley
China and Africa
Review by Adam Clayton Powell III
China and Africa: A Century of Engagement by David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman, University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia PA 19104, ISBN 978-0-8122-4419-9, 523 pp.
Global War Gone Wrong
Review by Amb. (ret.) Anthony C. E. Quainton
The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam by Akbar Ahmed, ISBN-13: 978-0815723783, Brookings Institution Press, 2013, 424 pp.
Tensions and Diplomacy in the South China Sea
Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor
Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Books, Articles, Websites #64
March 26, 2013 Intended for teachers of public diplomacy and related courses, here is an update on resources that may be of general interest. Suggestions for future updates are welcome. Each of the of the entries in my lists … Read more
Saba-Saba and the Fourth of July – Celebrating Independence
by Andrew A. Clark
The following story is about celebration of political independence. In Tanzania, the holiday called Saba-Saba (seven-seven in Swahili, meaning in this case the seventh of July 1954) celebrates the founding of the Tanganyika African National Union – TANU – which eventually was instrumental in gaining political independence. At the time of this event Saba-Saba was the primary political holiday in Tanzania, eclipsing even the day of actual independence. It was a day of serious political celebration.
So here’s the story…
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War
Review by Alan Kotok
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War, Edited by Richard Sobel, Peter Furia, and Bethany Barratt, Potomac Books: Dulles, VA, ISBN-13: 978-1-59797-492-9, 2012, 322 pp.
The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter
Born under an assumed name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter by Sara Mansfield Taber, Potomac Books Inc., ISBN13: 978- 1597976985,2012, 396 pp.
Just Over The Horizon in An Election Year
The Top Five Foreign Policy Challenges
by Ambassador Michael Cotter
Thai Memoir
Firsthand Observations on Countering Insurgencies: Lessons for Today?
by Dick Virden
The China Threat
Review by James W. White
The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15924-1 (hardcover), 978-0-231-52819-1 (ebook), xiii+295 pp.