The Foreign Service Journal, November 2010

N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 41 vancing U.S. interests. The book hearkens back to the early 1950s, when the U.S. Information Agency was es- tablished to “tell America’s story to the world.” Cull takes the reader through a half-century of diplomatic history framed by each presidential administra- tion’s continuations and changes to American propa- ganda efforts abroad. He shows how domestic politics and conflicting personalities in USIA, the White House and Congress all played a role in shaping how the U.S. presented itself and what effect this had, particularly in the ThirdWorld. (See Allen Hansen’s review in the July- August issue of the FSJ. ) Nicholas Cull is professor of public diplomacy at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is the author of Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American “Neutrality” in World War II (Oxford University Press, 1996) and a co-author of Propaganda and Mass Persua- sion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present (ABC-CLIO, 2003). The Three Circles of War: Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict in Iraq Edited by Heather S. Gregg, Hy S. Rothstein and John Arquilla, Potomac Books, Inc., 2010, $60, hardcover, 224 pages. Much of the analysis focus- ing on Iraq does not go past the well-known conflict between the country’s three main groups, the Sunnis, Shia and Kurds. Heather Gregg, Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla aim to give a more sophis- ticated explanation of events. The authors describe the three types of war that have taken place since the March 2003 U.S. invasion of the country: interstate conflict (that led to the successful de- posing of Saddam Hussein); insurgency (that targeted U.S.-led occupying forces); and civil war (sparked by the al-Qaida bombing of a Shiite holy site in 2006). Heather Gregg is an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Department of Defense Analysis. Hy Rothstein is a senior lecturer at the Department of Defense Analysis at NPS and previously served in the U.S. Army Special Forces. John Arquilla is a professor of defense analysis at NPS and the author of Worst Enemy: the Reluctant Transformation of the American Military (Ivan R. Dee, 2008). Atatürk’s Diplomats & Their Brief Biographies George S. Harris, The Isis Press, 2010, $50, paperback, 424 pages. Atatürk’s Diplomats opens with a 100-page essay, “The Foreign Service under Atatürk,” in which Harris explores the history of the Ottoman Foreign Service and the formation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s government, including descriptions of the new Turkish republic’s relationships with other countries. Then come some 600 biographies, ranging in length from sev- eral sentences to several pages, in which Harris de- scribes the men and women who served in Atatürk’s Foreign Service. George Harris received a Ph.D. in history of theMid- dle East fromHarvard in 1957, after which he served at Embassy Ankara until 1962. From 1979 to 1995 he was director of analysis for Near East and South Asia. His previous books include The Origins of Communism in Turkey (Hoover Institution, 1967) and The Communists and the Kadro Movement: Shaping Ideology in Atatürk’s Turkey (Isis Press, 2002). The book can be purchased from the publisher (www.theisispress.org) . Working World: Careers in International Education, Exchange and Development Sherry L. Mueller and Mark Overmann, Georgetown University Press, 2008, $24.95, paperback, 246 pages. A young professional’s journey from school to work- ing life is almost universally anxiety-provoking and chal- lenging. In this book, Sherry Mueller and Mark Over- mann make the new job-seeker’s task a bit easier.