The Foreign Service Journal, October 2011

O C T O B E R 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 39 each. A must-have for anyone interested in wartime journalism or the complicated intersection of govern- ment policy, public opinion and media bias, readers should not be deterred by this tome’s heft or price tag. MartinManning is a librarian at the Bureau of Diplo- macy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State, where he curates the U.S. Information Agency archives. Clarence Wyatt the Pottinger Professor of History at Centre College. Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security Swanee Hunt, Duke University Press, 2011, $32.95, paperback, 304 pages. In Worlds Apart , Ambassador Swanee Hunt highlights the some- times disastrous disconnect be- tween those who make and implement policy and those who witness or experience the results. Set during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995, during which period Hunt served as U.S. ambassador to neighboring Austria, the narrative unfolds in a series of 80 brief vignettes. These alternate between the experi- ences of those “inside” — the aid and human rights workers, journalists and others who watched the conflict firsthand — and those “outside” — the policymakers who had to make the decisions, often from oceans away, that played out on the ground. In the concluding chap- ter, the author sets forth six lessons she derived from her experiences. Swanee Hunt is the founder and current chair of Women Waging Peace, a global initiative to integrate women into peace processes. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government. More Than a Walk on the Beach: Confessions of an Unlikely Diplomat Mary E. Kramer, Sigler Companies, 2010, $24.95, paperback, 179 pages. The last thing that Mary Kramer, then president of the Iowa Senate, expected on receiving an emergency phone call fromher administrative assistant was to be redirected to the office of the president of the United States. But in the spring of 2003, while on vacation in South Carolina, that is exactly what happened, as she was informed that President G. W. Bush had nominated her as U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. This frank and lighthearted memoir follows Amb. Kramer’s evolution from a novice into a seasoned diplomat during her time in Bridgetown (2004-2006). It concludes with sober reflections on the future conduct of diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy. Radical Islam in America: Salafism’s Journey from Arabia to the West Chris Heffelfinger, Potomac Books, 2011, $29.95, hardcover, 182 pages. With punditry and public opin- ion in the United States long and understandably focused on the on- going conflicts in the Middle East, comparatively little attention has been paid to the potential sources of radi- calism made at home. In this new study, Chris Hef- felfinger describes the growth of Islamist influence within Muslim institutions in the West since the 1960s, drawing careful distinctions between the Islamic faith and the minority of radical ideologies that comprise the threat. Heffelfinger argues that the West’s misunder- standing of Islamist movements like Salafism has led to ineffective counterterrorism strategies and the prolifer- ation of radical sympathizers. Chris Heffelfinger is an FBI fellow who instructs FBI agents and Joint Terrorism Task Force members at the Combating Terror Center at West Point. Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder Charles F. ‘Chic’ Dambach, Apprentice House, 2010, $18.95, paperback, 346 pages. Exhaust the Limits recounts the experiences of a life- time spent working to protect the most vulnerable and advance the human condition in a book that is both an ad- venture story and a stirring call to the idealist in all of us. C OVER S TORY