Press | Book Review

Jeremi Suri, a Faculty Fellow at the Clements Center, reviewed Martin Indyk’s new book, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, for the New York Times. The book follows Kissinger’s diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East throughout his career, highlighting the unique challenges it presented. Henry Kissinger serves on the Clements Center Statecraft Board of Reference.

We are delighted at the news of the late Bill Powers being unanimously named as President Emeritus. We owe the very establishment of the Clements Center to Powers’ support and vision. Will Inboden, Clements executive director and William Powers, Jr. chair, writes, “Bill’s enthusiasm for the Clements Center also came because as a Navy veteran he…

Clements Center Predoctoral Fellow Peter Slezkine publishes review of Michael Kimmage’s Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy combined with a broader reflection on the history of US leadership in “The Case for Questioning U.S. Leadership” in National Interest. 

Excerpt from the review published in National Defense University Press: “Subordinating Intelligence is a well-written analysis of the evolution of the relationship between DOD and CIA in the post–Cold War era. One valuable contribution from this history is the identification of the barriers to cooperation, which pop up time after time in the various instances Oakley…

Park reviews Carr’s classic work The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations for the SAIS Review of International Affairs in honor of the 80th anniversary of its publication.

Jackson and a team of scholars review the recently published “Suez Deconstructed” by Philip Zelikow and the late Ernest May to determine what lessons the Suez Canal crisis holds for today’s policymakers.

Dr. Lawrence authors a review of “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy”,  the latest book from famed British journalist and war historian Sir Max Hastings.

The Texas National Security Review brought together four distinguished scholars to review Melvyn Leffler’s Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia and a member of our Academic Board. 

Eisenman offers a provocative thesis on how combined economic reform and ideological alignment spurred Mao’s collective economy in the 1970’s.  

In “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes” published in Lawfare, Steve Slick describes “Spy Watching” as “a valuable history and comprehensive study of America’s ongoing experiment with democratic oversight of its essential, but imperfect, intelligence enterprise.” 

Clements Center Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri has published a review of Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons From Dealmaking at the Highest Level written by James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin.  

Galen Jackson examines the role of status in international politics by critically reviewing James Jungbok Lee’s article, “The Importance of Status: The US-ROK Alliance Cohesion and the First Korean Nuclear Crisis, 1993-4,” on the 1993-1994 negotiations relating to North Korea’s nuclear program. 

In “Vietnam Revisionism and the Ugly American,” published in Lawfare, Clements Center’s Mark Lawrence reviews Max Boot’s new release, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”

CC Graduate Fellow Diana Bolsinger, who is a doctoral candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, writes a review of Steven Coll’s new book Directorate S for Task & Purpose.

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews a new book on President Nixon and the use of nuclear weapons for coercive diplomacy for the Journal of Cold War Studies. 

CC Executive Director Will Inboden reviews University of Pennsylvania Professor Walter McDougall’s recent book on The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy for an H-Diplo Roundtable. 

Mackubin Owens, who spoke at a Clements Center lecture earlier this year, wrote a review of Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s book American Power and Liberal Order for the Orbis Journal. 

Executive Director Will Inboden reviews three books by eminent national security policy scholars for the International Security Studies Forum.

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of dictator Joseph Stalin for the New York Times. 

Graduate Fellow Diana Bolsinger reviewed two new books on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate’s (ISI) activities. 

The Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick recently reviewed Joel Whitney’s publication Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers in an article published by Lawfare. 

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns’ new book “The Vietnam War: An Intimate History” for the Washington Post. 

The Strategy Bridge reviewed Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s new book American Power & Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy.

Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson recently published his work in Victims of Communism’s Dissident Blog and academic journal Orbis. 

Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow and Clinical Professor at the LBJ School Paul Pope reviews David Priess’s The President’s Book of Secrets for Lawfare Blog.