The Foreign Service Journal, November 2020

36 NOVEMBER 2020 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Much of the analysis and storytelling is performed with an eye toward understanding waste and missed opportunity. Calling on numerous disciplines from soil science to market economics, Mitchell tells the story of an evolving agricultural and human relationship in the Old Northwest Territory. Robert E. Mitchell, who retired from the Foreign Service in 1995 after postings in the Near East and Africa, is the author of a half-dozen nonfiction books and many articles. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was engaged in social science research and teaching for two decades at Columbia University, University of California–Berkeley, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Florida State University. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Laura M. Fabrycky, Fortress Press, 2020, $25.99/hardcover, e-book available, 304 pages. In the summer of 2016, Laura Fabrycky and her family moved to Berlin, Germany, for her husband’s three-year assignment at the U.S. embassy. On arriving she felt adrift, strangely alienated from her home in the United States and not comfortable in her new, unfamiliar surroundings. Yet the figure of theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1916-1945) would soon offer her mooring and define her time there. Seeking out more information about this man who died at the hands of the Nazis, Laura discovered the local Bonhoeffer-Haus, his family home that had been memorialized for visitors in the late 1980s. There, she would become a docent and learn over time and through experience to tell his story. Now holding a physical key to his house, alongside her U.S. government–issued house and official post office keys, she found other keys to Bonhoeffer that would reveal lessons for our time and place, including the importance of asking questions of herself and others—a known practice of Bonhoeffer’s. In clean and direct prose, Laura poignantly reflects on these and other civic responsibilities that we all share. Laura M. Fabrycky is a writer, a Foreign Service spouse, mother of three and a contributor to The Foreign Service Journal . She last wrote for the Journal in June on the Bonhoeffer-Haus, “Engaging Our Host Country’s History.” POLICYAND ISSUES Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil, Naval Institute Press, 2019, $45/hardcover, e-book available, 376 pages. The first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations, Chinese Communist Espio- nage: An Intelligence Primer profiles the leaders, top spies and important operations, and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese-language intelligence and security terms. The Wall Street Journal calls it “the most comprehensive attempt yet to outline the range of China’s spying and the complicated web of agencies that carry it out. …The ignominious list of Americans, both of Chinese descent and otherwise, who have sold national or corporate secrets to China, or attempted to do so, is enough to raise questions about how much of China’s military and economic rise could have been achieved without espionage.” Matthew Brazil was a Foreign Commercial Service officer in Beijing from 1991 to 1995, and also worked in the Commerce Department’s Office of Export Enforcement and for U.S. Army Intelligence before joining the private sector. He is a nonresident fellow at the Jamestown Foundation and an account manager at an American technology company in California. Peter Mattis is a research fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks . He was previously a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation and edited its biweekly China Brief from 2011 to 2013. He also worked as a counterintelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.