The Foreign Service Journal, November 2015

36 NOVEMBER 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL istrations. He is the author of Commercial Diplomacy and the National Interest (American Academy of Diplomacy, 2004) an d, with the late Tony Gillespie, Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service (Georgetown University Press, 2008 and 2011). His short story “Trotsky in the Bronx” won the 2012 Goldenberg Fiction Award. POLICYAND ISSUES Climate, Weather and Ideology: Climate Change Denial William R. McPherson, CreateSpace, 2015, $14.99/paperback; $9.99/Kindle, 271 pages. Today we are confronted with the conflict between scientists and climate change deniers on an almost daily basis. As Wil- liamMcPherson argues in his new book, “denial ideologues” have successfully created a pseudo-science now pervasive in the United States, in which it is argued that “extreme weather is not related to climate change,” and “all climate change is natural.” In this volume, McPherson presents the scientific consensus linking extreme weather to climate change, debunking several climate change denial tactics along the way. Several of the climate change-induced extreme weather phenomena of recent years—e.g., Hurricane Sandy, droughts in the American West and Midwest, Typhoon Haiyan—raise issues that we will be forced to address in the near future— namely, poverty, food scarcity, climate refugees—McPherson argues. He makes some striking points: For instance, denial ideologues will argue that poverty and disease are more impor- tant to address in the short term, but there can be no solutions to poverty when climate change overwhelms international economic development. McPherson ends on a hopeful note, offering practical recom- mendations to scientists looking to combat denial, particularly among politicians. William R. McPherson spent 21 years in the Foreign Service, serving in Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Switzerland, among other locations. In retirement he has worked on international environmental issues, and is an activist working with the Sierra Club on climate change and coal exports. Theology and the Disciplines of the Foreign Service: The World’s Potential to Contribute to the Church Theodore L. Lewis, Wipf & Stock, 2015, $22/paperback; $9.99/Kindle, 188 pages. Part memoir and part theological dis- cussion, Theology and the Disciplines of the Foreign Service explores the ways in whichTheodore L. Lewis’s 29-year FS career and priestly calling enhanced, informed and enriched each other. Early in his career, Lewis “recognized the affinity between the approach of biblical criticism and the critical approach I had developed in the Foreign Service.” His book describes why these links are important and how understanding them can help clarify religion’s role for individuals living in modern communities. Lewis points to events where his faith intertwined with his postings abroad, such as Vietnam in the early 1960s when his theological studies helped him cope with the intense work and economic reporting demands, and the Congo where he visited the Diocese of Boga and encountered the permeating presence of the late priest and evangelist, Apolo Kivebulaya. In October, the book was launched in Britain at Oxford Uni- versity. (For a detailed review, see the April FSJ . ) Theodore L. Lewis is a retired Foreign Service officer and Anglican priest. His postings included Vietnam, Pakistan, Korea and the Congo. Following retirement in the mid-1980s, he worked on his theological writings at Cambridge and Oxford. He is author of To Restore the Church: Radical Redemption History to Now (1996). Expeditionary Diplomacy in Action: Supporting the Casamance Peace Initiative James R. Bullington and Tuy-Cam Bullington, CreateSpace, 2015, $9.95/paperback; $3.99/Kindle, 118 pages. While Senegal is generally a stable and democratic country, a secessionist move- ment active since 1982 in its southern part, the Casamance, has caused much human and economic suffering. So in 2012, Presi- dent Macky Sall launched a peace initiative to bring the conflict to an end. Expeditionary Diplomacy in Action is James and Tuy-Cam Bullington’s account of their role in the program—an example