The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2018 39 in Japan, or will many of these institutions also wither with time and eventually suspend their operations, as well? By reviewing historical documents, interviewing stakehold- ers in both countries and analyzing the culture of Japanese and Chinese higher education, Yang seeks to identify the sources of success and failure in expanding American universities abroad. Dennis Yang is a member of the U.S. Foreign Service and currently serves as a regional English language officer (RELO) at the U.S. Department of State. The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam, 1967–1972 Stephen B. Young, Hamilton Books, 2017, $44.97/paperback, $30/Kindle, 414 pages. During the VietnamWar, Stephen B. Young spent three years in Vinh Long province as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development. His work with the Civil Operations and Revolu- tionary Development Support counterinsurgency program, for which he served as a deputy district adviser in the province and chief of the village government branch there, is the basis of this book. Young’s CORDS experience persuaded him that for the United States to achieve its national security objectives, it must apply associative power in place of both hard power and soft power. As he explains, this approach entails the use of joint ventures and alliances to optimize the forms of power brought to bear in conflicts, responding with precision to a spectrum of threats, situational challenges and political opportunities. Young believes the United States successfully used this approach in Vietnam, but failed to apply it in Iraq and Afghani- stan. Because of this omission, interim outcomes in those conflicts did not accomplish American objectives. Stephen B. Young was a USAID FSO from 1967 to 1971, and later took the initiative to begin resettling refugees from Indochina after the VietnamWar. A fluent Vietnamese speaker, he and his wife, PhamThi Hoa, translated Duong Thu Huong’s novel The Zenith into English. And with Nguyen Ngoc Huy, Young co-authored The Tradition of Human Rights in China and Vietnam. David vs. David, Volume One: We Agree to Disagree David Jones and David Kilgour, Baico Publishing, Inc., 2018, $25/paperback, 379 pages. For more than five years, David T. Jones (long a familiar byline to Foreign Service Journal readers) and David Kilgour, who served for seven terms in the Canadian Parliament, have written a series of columns addressing various issues for Yahoo! and The Epoch Times. Drawing on their respective careers and backgrounds, the authors’ goal has been to offer readers cogent, thoughtful and engaging examinations of politics, academia, journalism and human rights. Longtime friends, “The Davids” believe they occupy a unique niche as commentators thanks to their extensive familiarity with Canada and the United States. With that in mind, they have assembled some favorite columns here, supplemented by commentaries and evaluations of where each was right and went wrong. This first volume is devoted to domestic issues on both sides of the border, such as elections, health care, guns and crime, racism and economics, to name but a few. Look- ing ahead, the next collection will address foreign affairs and diplomacy, while a projected Volume 3 will compile standalone pieces by each author. David T. Jones is a retired Senior Foreign Service officer. He is the author of Alternative North Americas: What Canada and the United States Can Learn from Each Other (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2014), editor of The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough: The Treaty Eliminating Intermediate-Range (INF) Missiles (New Academia Publishing, 2012) and co-author with David Kilgour of Uneasy Neighbo(u)rs: Canada, the USA and the Dynamics of State, Industry and Culture (Wiley, 2007). David Kilgour, a human rights activist, author, former lawyer and Canadian politician, is a Senior Fellow of the Raoul Wallen- berg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal. To purchase this book, please contact jonesdt2002@yahoo. com.