China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement
Since Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2012, nearly every aspect of China’s relations with Africa has grown dramatically. Beijing…
African Wars: A Defense Intelligence Perspective
AFRICAN WARS: A DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE PERSPECTIVE by William G. Thom, former senior Africa specialist in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency,…
Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy
For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world’s attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected…
Pacific Gilbraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry over the Annexation of Hawai’i, 1885-1898
Based on a sweeping reevaluation of new and old sources in three countries, Pacific Gibraltar is the first detailed account of…
Why Nation-Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States
No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack…
Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia
Former ambassador to Pakistan and Bangladesh William B. Milam has produced a sympathetic, frank, and nuanced account of the two…
A Professional Foreigner
In A Professional Foreigner (Potomac Books/U of Nebraska Press), volume #74 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, Ambassador Edward Marks…
Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in World War II and the Cold War 1939-1958
Defiant Diplomacy depicts the extraordinary life of diplomat Henrik de Kauffmann (1888–1963), a major figure in U.S.-Danish relations during World War…
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy, Unintended Consequences, and the Rwandan Genocide
As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide—a period of political…
The Colonels’ Coup and the American Embassy: A Diplomat’s View of the Breakdown of Democracy in Cold War Greece
A major event in the history of the Cold War, the Colonels’ Coup of April 21, 1967, ushered in seven…