The Foreign Service Journal, November 2006

the Republic of South Africa from 2001 to 2004, and earlier in his career served three tours of duty at the U.S. mission to the U.N. He has published two previ- ous books, The United Nations, Iran and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed (Indiana University Press, 1994) and Ending Mozambique’s War (U.S. Institute for Peace Press, 1994). This book is the 26th volume in the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training’s Diplomats and Diplomacy series. Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower John Brady Kiesling, Potomac Books, Inc., 2006, $19.11, hardcover, 320 pages. In February 2003, FSO John Brady Kiesling publicly re- signed his position as political counselor in Athens to protest the Bush administration’s impending invasion of Iraq. His belief that the security, economic and moral costs of the war would outweigh any benefit to the American people was coupled with concern over the fact that diplomacy had lost out as the primary defend- er of U.S. interests overseas. Appearing three years after his resignation, Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Super- power is a lively and incisive exploration of what U.S. power can realistically accomplish and, as he writes in the introduction, “a plea for the profession of diplo- macy.” As Harvard professor Stanley Hoffman declares in The New York Review of Books , Kiesling’s book is an insider’s account that “should be required reading by all students and practitioners of foreign policy.” John Brady Kiesling was an FSO for 20 years, serv- ing in Israel, Morocco, Armenia, Washington, D.C., and Greece. Since resigning, he has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and a columnist and speaker on international political affairs. He lives in Athens. India-Pakistan Negotiations: Is Past Still Prologue? Dennix Kux, United States Institute of Peace, 2006, $12.50, paperback, 104 pages. Examining six India-Pakistan negotiations since independence in 1947, Dennis Kux shows that the root of the two countries’ problems is not cultural dif- ferences but their “legacy of mutual distrust and antagonism, despite occasional periods of détente.” Kux argues that both countries need to “exert robust, creative and enduring leader- ship to achieve concrete, broad- based improvement in their bilateral relations and, ultimate- ly, South Asian regional securi- ty.” All students and diplomats interested in the unique India-Pakistan relationship will find India-Pakistan Negotiations: Is Past Still Prologue? a compelling introduction. Dennis Kux, a retired ambassador and South Asia specialist, is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of histories of U.S. relations with Pakistan and India, and has written extensively on South Asia. Kux served three tours in India and Pakistan, and was country director for India during the 1970s. He served as ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire from 1986 to 1989. America On Notice: Stemming the Tide of Anti-Americanism Glenn E. Schweitzer and Carole D. Schweitzer, Prometheus Books, 2006, $18.48, hardcover, 326 pages. Here is a well-researched, high- ly readable analysis of America’s predicament as the unloved superpower — how we got here and, more importantly, how to move forward to rebuild the bridges critical to an international effort to contain terrorism while promoting better lives for all. Reflecting on decades of experience in interna- tional relations, the authors advocate a new emphasis in foreign assistance on job creation and sustainable solutions. They also emphasize the importance of lis- tening to and considering the views of leaders of other societies, rather than simply “proclaiming” U.S. poli- cies and intentions. Glenn E. Schweitzer, a retired FSO, is currently the director of Central European and Eurasian affairs at the National Academy of Sciences. Carole D. Schweit- zer is executive editor of Association Management magazine. They have written or co-authored a number of books, including: Techno-Diplomacy: U.S. Soviet Confrontations in Science and Technology (Plenum N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 6 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 59