THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2025 33 diplomacy. His unique ability to wield “soft power” strengthened relationships wherever he served. After more than 30 years with the State Department, Luers brought his art expertise to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Serving as its president, he secured the Met’s Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by such masters as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Cézanne. Bill Luers died in 2025. For more on his career, see the September-October FSJ. Fifty Years Among Nomads and Cowboys: Roamin’ the Range and Mountains Daniel Miller, Blurb, 2025, $15.99/ paperback, digital available, 184 pages. In Fifty Years Among Nomads and Cowboys, Daniel Miller offers 50 extraordinary images from his work and journeys in Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, India, Southeast Asia, Mongolia, and the American West. Spanning from 1974 to 2024, the principal images are complemented by 91 other photographs and text describing the lives of nomads and cowboys, the livestock they care for, the festivals they participate in, and the rangelands and mountains they call home. Part memoir and part ethnographic portrait, the book is a unique record of little-known landscapes and cultures by a former cowboy, rangeland ecologist, and international development specialist. Daniel Miller was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal in the mid-1970s. As a USAID agriculture officer from 2003 to 2017, he served in Washington, D.C., Afghanistan, India, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, and Pakistan. After retiring, he worked on livestock development projects in Mongolia. He currently resides in Buffalo, Wyoming. Sketches: Brander Street and Beyond: The Grandpa Chronicles Peter Molberg, independently published, 2025, $12.00/paperback, print only, 214 pages. The author, a doctor who spent a decade in the Foreign Service, calls these vignettes of his life “word sketches” that are “open to anyone but especially intended for [his] grandchildren.” Beginning in his North Dakota birthplace, they include bits about his family and childhood, his educational path from the North Dakota School of Forestry through Harvard and Stanford, his time in the Peace Corps, his experiences practicing medicine and learning to fish in small-town Oregon, teaching in two residencies, and, finally, his years overseas in the Foreign Service. He describes pain, pathos, and pleasure encountered along the way in this book designed to record but also to entertain. Peter Molberg was a regional medical officer in the Foreign Service from 2001 to 2012. His posts included Mali, India, Bangladesh, Türkiye, and Washington, D.C. Dealing with Dragons, Bears, and Some Nice People Too: A Diplomatic Chronicle B. Lynn Pascoe, New Academia Publishing, 2024, $35.00/paperback, print only, 542 pages. This volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy series offers a candid insider’s take on 45 years of change in China, the Soviet Union/ Russia, and Southeast Asia, along with an inside look at the work of the United Nations to manage conflicts around the world. B. Lynn Pascoe covers Kissinger’s China diplomacy, the later establishment of formal diplomatic ties, and the fallout from the brutal 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. He analyzes U.S.-Soviet conflicts in the 1980s and the transformation of the relationship after Gorbachev’s rise to power. He writes of his role in U.S. civilian and military work after a monstrous tsunami killed more than 170,000 people in Indonesia’s Aceh province. And he outlines his successes and failures during five years as under-secretary-general for political affairs at the United Nations.
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