The Foreign Service Journal, November 2016

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2016 41 Murrow’s Cold War: Public Diplomacy for the Kennedy Administration Gregory M. Tomlin, Potomac Books, 2016, $34.95/hardcover, $24.07/Kindle, 400 pages. In March 1961 America’s most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a 25-year career with the Columbia Broad- casting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency. There he improved the global perception of the United States by deftly promoting public diplomacy in the advancement of U.S. foreign policy. This book tells that story. Gregory M. Tomlin is a former assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A career Army officer, he has served in Germany, Korea, Kosovo and Iraq, as well as at the White House as a military social aide for the Obama administration. He is the co-author of The Gods of Diyala: Trans- fer of Command in Iraq (2008). The Last Thousand: One School’s Promise in a Nation at War Jeffrey E. Stern, St. Martin’s Press, 2016, $26.99/hardcover, 325 pages. In this story of the Marefat School, young Afghanis speak for themselves about their hopes and dreams for their country and for themselves. A renowned institution located in the slums of Kabul, the school was built by a minority group that is still actively discrimi- nated against, the Hazara. Through a series of exhaustive interviews—with the school’s founder, parents of students, the security director and several students—Jeffrey Stern chronicles the changes effected in a single community by America’s intervention in Afghanistan and its withdrawal. A sensitive, in- depth look at the effects of war on ordinary people, the book demonstrates the power of education. Jeffrey E. Stern is a writer, photographer and development worker. His reporting from Afghanistan, Kashmir, West Africa and elsewhere has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Esquire, Time, The Daily Beast , the Philadelphia Inquirer, Duke Magazine and other publications. Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types and Models Alison Holmes with J. Simon Rofe, Westview Press, 2016, $45/paperback, 330 pages. The character of diplomacy never changes, but how it is carried out and who is doing so depends on time and place, the authors of this challenging but rewarding read argue. Holmes and Rofe aim to broaden the view of what diplomacy can be, offering a global perspective on the conduct of diplomacy today and the ways in which it might develop in the future. They address Western and non-Western modes of diplomacy, as well as the diplomacy of states in different developmental stages, and present three new models of diplomatic practice: community, trans-Atlantic and relational. Alison R. Holmes is an assistant professor of international studies at Humboldt State University. J. Simon Rofe is a senior lecturer in diplomacy and international studies at SOAS, Univer- sity of London. The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict Edited by Walter Laqueur and Dan Schueftan, Penguin, 2016, $22/paperback, $11.99/Kindle, 608 pages. In print for nearly half a century, and now in its eighth edition, The Israeli-Arab Reader is an authoritative guide to more than a century of conflict in the Middle East. Arranged chrono- logically and without bias by two veteran historians of the Middle East, Walter Laqueur and Dan Schueftan, this compre- hensive reference brings together speeches, letters, articles and reports involving all the major interests in the area. This edition features a new introduction as well as 50 pages of new material covering developments since 2009, when the seventh edition appeared. Walter Laqueur, a professor of history and an expert com- mentator on international affairs, has written and edited more than 25 books. Dan Schueftan is director of the National Secu- rity Studies Center and the International Graduate Program in National Security at the University of Haifa. He is the author of numerous books on the history and politics of the Middle East.