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

Review by John Handley

by David A. Langbart

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.

by Sol Schindler

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.

Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor

  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

Reviewed by David T. Jones

Reviewed by John Sylvester

by Paul Levine

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…

by Bruce Gregory

by Michael Hornblow

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.

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.

The Top Five Foreign Policy Challenges
by Ambassador Michael Cotter

Firsthand Observations on Countering Insurgencies: Lessons for Today?
by Dick Virden

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.

Review by Martin Wenick
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David Scheffer, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0691140155, 570 pp.