The Foreign Service Journal, November 2004

he Journal is pleased to present our annual Foreign Service authors roundup as a cover story, in plenty of time for holiday orders. Here is an annotated list of some of the volumes written or edited by Foreign Service personnel and family members, past and present, in 2003 and 2004. This year’s selection contains a strong policy studies and issues section, a wide-ranging history section, and a respectable sampling of novels, poetry and travel works, in addition to 14 memoirs of Foreign Service life. As in the past two years, a significant portion of our titles are self-published. Our primary purpose in compiling this list is to cel- ebrate the wealth of literary talent within the Foreign Service community, and to give our readers the oppor- tunity to support colleagues by sampling their wares. Each entry contains full publication data along with a short commentary. While many of these books are available from book- stores and other sources, we encourage our readers to use the AFSA Web site’s Marketplace feature to place your orders. We have created a Bookstore there with links to Amazon.com. For the few books that cannot be ordered through Amazon.com, we have provided the necessary contact information. But enough crass commercialism. On to the books! — Susan Maitra, Senior Editor POLICY STUDIES & ISSUES Chronology of World Terrorism, 1901-2001 Henry E. Mattox, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004, $45.00, hardcover, 195 pages. Its perpetrators have changed and its form has varied, but terrorism has been a prominent factor in political life during the past centu- ry. This book presents a year-by-year account of the main terrorist incidents from the September 1901 assassination of President William McKinley to the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide attacks on New York and Washington. The study begins with the contentious topic of defining terrorism and concludes with a dis- cussion of its effectiveness. Useful appendices contain the texts of international agreements bearing on terror- ism and an extensive English-language bibliography of sources in the field. Henry E. Mattox served as a Foreign Service officer from 1957 to 1980, and now resides in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he is editor of the online magazine American Diplomacy (americandiplomacy.org ). He is the author of Army Football in 1945: Anatomy of a Championship Season (1990). F O C U S N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 19 T O NCE AGAIN WE ARE PLEASED TO FEATURE A COMPILATION OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS BY F OREIGN S ERVICE - AFFILIATED AUTHORS RANGING FROM MEMOIRS TO POLICY STUDIES , HISTORY , NOVELS , POETRY AND TRAVEL WORKS .