The Foreign Service Journal, October 2011

42 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / O C T O B E R 2 0 1 1 embassies that protect against terrorism and still convey the values of American democracy. Says Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics, of the new edition: “The addi- tion and appraisal of current designs that update the book’s earlier history of embassy architecture define the dilemma and highlight the need for better solu- tions.” Jane Loeffler, who was featured at AFSA’s April 14 Book Notes event, is a graduate of the Harvard School of Design and received her Ph.D. from The George Washington University. She teaches architectural his- tory at the University of Maryland, College Park. Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976 Daniel Weimer, The Kent State University Press, 2011, $65, hardcover, 328 pages. In Seeing Drugs , author Daniel Weimer examines the genesis of the U.S. war on narcotics during the Nixon and Ford administrations, when the policies that set the parameters of subsequent American drug control abroad were developing. By highlighting the preva- lence of modernization and counterinsurgency discus- sions within the drug-control policy discourse, he plumbs an unexplored and important facet of the his- tory of U.S.-Third World interaction. The book is one of several offerings in Kent State’s “New Studies inU.S. Foreign Relations” series. Daniel Weimer is assistant professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, W. Va.. His current research explores the theme of the control of nature in American foreign relations. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict Erica Chenoweth &Maria J. Stephan, Columbia University Press, 2011, $29.50, hardcover, 320 pages. This meticulously researched, persuasively argued book combines statistical analysis with country-specific case studies to assert that for more than a century, be- tween 1900 and 2006, nonviolent resistance movements have been more than twice as effective in achieving desired change than their violent counterparts. The authors describe in detail the factors that have enabled such campaigns to succeed and some- times caused them to fail. They compare the out- comes of violent and nonviolent resistance in different historical and geographical contexts to make the ar- gument that violent insurgencies are rarely justifiable on strategic grounds, let alone moral. Erica Chenoweth is an assistant professor of gov- ernment at Wesleyan University. Maria J. Stephan is a strategic planner with the Department of State. She was previously an adjunct professor at Georgetown and American University. The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars John Tirman, Oxford University Press, 2011, $29.95, hardcover, 416 pages. Americans are greatly con- cerned about the number of our troops killed in battle—100,000 dead inWorldWar I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; more than 1,000 in Afghanistan — and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? John Tirman answers this compelling question in The Deaths of Other s, a critical account of the American way of war that is fascinating reading and sure to be highly controversial. John Tirman is principal research scientist and ex- ecutive director of the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the au- thor of several books and, most recently, the editor of Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). His article, “UNSCR 1325: Slow Progress, Uncertain Prospects,” appeared in the April FSJ’s focus on women in security and development. C OVER S TORY