The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2018 57 Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans James W. Pardew, University Press of Kentucky, 2017, $39.95/hardcover, $24.99/Kindle, 424 pages. Peacemakers is the first comprehensive history of the successful multilateral intervention in the Balkans between 1995 and 2008 by an official directly involved throughout the period in the diplomatic and military responses to the crises. James W. Pardew recounts how Richard Holbrooke and the U.S. envoys who followed him helped to stop or prevent vicious wars in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Macedo- nia. He reminds us that American leadership and multilateral cooperation are often critical to resolving international crises. Ambassador (ret.) James W. Pardewwas the primary U.S. negotiator of the Ohrid Agreement inMacedonia. A former ambas- sador to Bulgaria, he also led Balkan task forces for the secretaries of Defense and State, and served as a policy adviser at NATO. Prior to his diplomatic service, he spent 27 years in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer. See the September FSJ for a review of this book. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Benn Steil, Simon & Schuster, 2018, $35/hardcover, $16.99/Kindle, 621 pages. As Vladimir Putin’s Russia rattles the world order, this history provides criti- cal context into understanding today’s international landscape. With fascinat- ing new material from American, Rus- sian, German and other European archives, Benn Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. Benn Steil is a senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. His previous