Review by Jon P. Dorschner
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: (Dispatches from a Precarious State) By Declan Walsh

by Michael Mates

by Mark White

by Kenneth M. Quinn

by James R. Bullington

by Pamela J. Slutz and Brian L. Goldbeck

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner

(Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State)
Review by Jon P. Dorschner

Review by Donald Camp
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer

by Keith C. Smith

by Larry Clinton Thompson

by Larry Schwartz
Adapted from Newberry Series Lecture at Dacor-Bacon House
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018

Excerpted with permission of Ohio University from “Contacts with Burma, 1935-1949: A Personal Account”.

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

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.

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

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

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 http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Whitehead-John.toc_.pdf INTERVIEW … Continued

by Hans N. Tuch Currently there is no  institutional functional or operational relationship between the  Department of State and the Voice of America, a relationship that  served  the successful conduct of U.S. public diplomacy for many years—from the early 1950s … Continued

by Jon P. Dorschner