The Foreign Service Journal, November 2008

GaryWeaver is founder and executive director of the Intercultural Management Institute in Washing- ton, D.C., and has been a member of the faculty of the School of International Service at American University for four decades. Adam Mendelson is managing editor of The Middle East Journal and served on the Editorial Review Board of Intercultural Management Quarterly. U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation after 50 Years Jenifer Mackby and Paul Cornish, editors, The CSIS Press, 2008, $29.95, paperback, 410 pages. As Britain and the United States commemorate five de- cades of the special nuclear relationship embodied in the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement, two leading research institutes — one on each side of the Atlantic — have collaborated to exam- ine that history. The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, in London, drew on senior officials, scientists, academics and members of industry involved in the implementation of the MDA over the years. Contrib- utors were asked how the relationship flourished despite serious obstacles and where it might be head- ing. The resulting collection of histories, analyses and anecdotes is a valuable resource. Jenifer Mackby is a fellow in the International Security Program at CSIS in Washington, D.C. Paul Cornish is head of the International Security Programme at Chatham House in London. A Diplomat’s Handbook for Democracy Development Support Jeremy Kinsman, Council for a Community of Democracies, 2008, $15.00, paperback, 129 pages. This “toolbox” for practic- ing diplomats, now being presented continent-by-con- tinent through a series of conferences, is a project of the Council for a Community for Democracies. CCD is an international organization launched in 2000 by the U.S., Poland and six other co-convening states, along with civil society groups, to promote international collabora- tion in advancing democracy. A wide variety of case studies of specific country experiences is at the core of the handbook. The hand- book is the focal point of a worldwide process of train- ing and engaging diplomats in democracy-building, including seeking reactions and feedback from the field, all of which is documented at the book’s Web site. Led by former Canadian diplomat Jeremy Kinsman, the project is financed by the governments of Canada, the U.S., India and Lithuania, among others, as well as by nongovernmental organizations such as Freedom House and the International Center of Non-Violent Conflict. Available in full online at www.diplomats handbook.org/ , the book can also be purchased in print by e-mailing silva@ccd21.org. Living with Stalin’s Ghost: A Fulbright Memoir of Moscow and the New Russia Bruce C. Daniels, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008, $19.95, paperback, 150 pages. Part political commentary, part journalism and part comparative history, this memoir will entertain readers and give them a new understand- ing of post-Communist Russia. As the Fulbright chair at Moscow State University, Bruce C. Daniels had a privileged position at Russia’s most distinguished university, and he drew upon his training, experience and interest to capture the texture of daily life in Moscow a decade after one of the most remarkable transformations in history. For a full review, see the September FSJ . Bruce C. Daniels is the Gilbert M. Denman En- dowed Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy Patricia Gates Lynch, with a foreword by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Countinghouse Press, Inc., 2008, $29.95, hardcover, 390 pages. “This is a story full of life, of people, of a woman who N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 8 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 39