U.S.-China Agricultural Dialogue in Des Moines Shows Potential for Improving Relations During a Critical Period
November 2022
by Kenneth Quinn
Tag: South and Central Asia
U.S. Relations With China: DACOR Conference Summary
November 2022
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 … Continued
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: (Dispatches from a Precarious State)
May 2021
Review by Jon P. Dorschner
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: (Dispatches from a Precarious State) By Declan Walsh
Spike Lee Brings Back Vietnam Memories of Race and the Bond in Combat
August 2020
by Kenneth M. Quinn
The Impolite American Consul: A Memoir of the 1966 Buddhist Struggle Movement in Hué
August 2020
by James R. Bullington
The Anarchy
November 2019
The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner
Reimagining Pakistan
May 2019
(Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State)
Review by Jon P. Dorschner
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
May 2019
Review by Donald Camp
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer
A New Cold War: Personal Reflections Regarding Russia’s Missed Opportunities with NATO, Ukraine and Its Western Neighbors
February 2019
by Keith C. Smith
U.S. Diplomatic Engagement and Cultural Heritage Protection
November 2018
by Larry Schwartz
Adapted from Newberry Series Lecture at Dacor-Bacon House
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018
Post-War Burma, a First-Hand Account from John Cady
November 2018
Excerpted with permission of Ohio University from “Contacts with Burma, 1935-1949: A Personal Account”.
Books of Interest Fall 2018
September 2018
Near Abroad, Thailand, The Road to Unfreedom, US Counterterrorism, In Praise of Blood, The Darkening Web, China’s Great Wall of Debt, The Peace Makers
The Doctor and the Saint
April 2018
Review by Jon Dorschner
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and “The Annihilation of Caste” by Arundhati Roy. Haymarket Books: May 2017. ISBN 978-1-60846-797-6. 171 pp.
Let’s Talk Seriously About Afghanistan
March 2018
by Amb. Michael W. Cotter (ret.) The media is full of information about the conflict in Afghanistan. Some of the coverage supports the Trump administration’s plan to increase the U.S. military presence in that country; some of it is opposed. … Continued
To the Secretary: Leaked Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect
December 2017
Review by Renee M. Earle
To the Secretary: Leaked Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect. ISBN 978-0-393-24658-2. W.W. Norton & Company. Mary Thompson-Jones
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives: Ambassador John D. Negroponte
December 2017
Interview covers: Biography, Vietnam, Kissinger, Paris Peace Talks The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Ambassador John D. Negroponte Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial Interview date: February 11, 2000 Copyright 2017 ADST https://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Negroponte-John-D.pdf INTERVIEW … Continued