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 41 C OVER S TORY of FDI in extractive industries, in infrastructure, in manufacturing and assembly, and in services. He identifies the benefits and concerns in each sector and offers sector-based policy recommendations to en- hance its contribution to building and improving the production and export base in developing countries. A Peterson Institute senior fellow, Mr. Moran holds the Marcus Wallenberg Chair at the School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University, where he founded the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy and serves as its director. He was senior adviser for eco- nomics on the State Department Policy Planning Staff from 1993 to 1994. Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS for the Developing World Rosario C. Giusti de Pérez and Ramón A. Pérez, ESRI Press, 2008, $29.95, paperback, 132 pages. After decades of rapid ur- banization, more than one third of the urban population of developing countries now lives in dense, sprawling squatter settlements that lack infrastructure and prop- erty titles and are constructed from whatever materials may be at hand. Analyzing Urban Poverty describes how geo- graphic information systems technology can be an ef- fective tool in the effort to improve the quality of life in these areas. The authors are director and president, respec- tively, of the Venezuelan branch of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., a California-based company that offers a database called ArcGIS (avail- able at www.arcgis.com). An open data platform for maps, geographical and statistical information, ArcGIS allows users to compile, upload and access strategic data in the form of simple maps and information feeds. Cartographic or topo- graphic data can be integrated with thematic overlays, analytic data and other graphics tailored to a particu- lar project. Trained as architects and urban designers in Vene- zuela and the U.S., Rosario C. Giusti de Pérez and Ramón A. Pérez live and work in Maracaibo. The Tree of Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War Christopher Merrill, Milkweed Editions, 2011, $22, paperback, 224 pages. Taking several ageless questions — Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do? — as points of departure, award-winning author and poet Christopher Merrill ex- plores the fabric of what he calls our “Age of Terror.” In three extended essays, he observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan, traces French poet and diplomat Saint-John Perse’s epic journey fromBeijing to Ulan Bator in 1921, and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of Amer- ican wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He asserts that it is in this trinity of human actions—ceremony, expedition and war— that history is formed. Merrill approaches his sub- ject as only a poet can, with an eye for beauty and a keen sense of the complex interconnectedness of things that defies conventional observation. For years a book critic for Public Radio International and the author of four volumes of poetry, Christopher Merrill is also the author of four nonfiction works. He currently serves on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies, Revised Second Edition Jane C. Loeffler, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, $24.95, paperback, 424 pages. For this new edition of her ac- claimed work, architecture historian Jane Loeffler revised what had been the last chapter and wrote an entirely new conclusion, en- compassing the past decade of embassy construction and adding many new photos. Hailed by Library Journal as a “fascinating, readable and scholarly chronicle” when it was first published in 1998 in the ADST–DACORDiplo- mats and Diplomacy Series, The Architecture of Diplo- macy continues to offer compelling insight into one of American diplomacy’s central challenges: how to build