The Foreign Service Journal, November 2012

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2012 45 together experts and policymakers to review what they knew about al-Qaida and associated movements before the terrorist assault and what they have learned since. Participants also shared thoughts on the future of the terrorist movement and directions for counterterrorism research and policy. This vital document is available free online at tenyearslater.jhu.edu . Lorry M. Fenner, a retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, is a senior research fellow and director of the Conflict Records Research Center at NDU’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. Mark E. Stout, a lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and the International Spy Museum’s historian, was previously an intelligence analyst with the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Jes- sica Goldings is a research analyst at CRRC. The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond Hannah Gurman, Columbia University Press, 2012, $45/hardcover, 296 pages; $19.99/Kindle Edition. The Dissent Papers is a serious and long- overdue treatment of constructive dissent by Foreign Service officers over the past 70 years, from the Cold War to the present. In it the author assesses the history, value and impact of internal dissent over U.S. foreign policy since World War II. For a full review, see the September Journal . Hannah Gurman is a clinical assistant professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her writ- ing has appeared in Salon , Foreign Policy in Focu s, the Journal of Contemporary History and other publications. Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World Edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, United States Institute of Peace Press, 2011, $35, paperback, 590 pages. Thomas Pickering, former under secretary of State for political affairs and ambassa- dor to the United Nations, calls Rewiring Regional Security “a must read for anyone interested in this major topic of growing importance.” Transcending the usual stovepiped studies of international security, the book features regional voices and is aimed at foster- ing an understanding of the mosaic of regional security chal- lenges and conflict management responses in all their complex- ity. Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University. Fen Osler Hampson is professor of international affairs and director of the Norman Pater- son School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Pamela Aall is provost for the United States Institute of Peace’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces Are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel and Its Relationship with the United States Stuart E. Eizenstat, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012, $35, hardcover, 288 pages. “An important book that cogently describes the global processes, trends and shifts that are shaping our world, and will undoubtedly impact the state of Israel and the Jewish people, as we move further into the 21st century,” says Israeli President Shimon Peres of this book. The author takes a comprehensive look at the effects of globalization powered by technology and communications on the world—and, in particular, on Israel and the United States. Stuart E. Eizenstat has held senior U.S. government positions in three presidential administrations and has been a leader in the Jewish community. He is also author of Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II (PublicAffairs, 2004). The Valley’s Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban Daniel R. Green, Potomac Books, 2011, $29.95, hardcover, 288 pages. In this detailed firsthand account, Daniel R. Green recalls his experience as the State Department political adviser to a Provin- cial Reconstruction Team in the province of Uruzgan. This raw and truthful look at the world of “dust and Humvees” encompasses the policy expectations, programs and practical efforts of the PRT and its members, as well as the consid- erable challenges they faced. Daniel R. Green is a Soref Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and is pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at