The Foreign Service Journal, November 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2021 57 challenged by the largest-ever peacetime antiwar movement. He explains how domestic politics shaped dramatic foreign policy reversals by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and analyzes both why the Cold War intensified so quickly during this period, and how, against all odds, Washington and Moscow repaired their relationship. Drawing on recently declassified archival material, The Second Cold War challenges conventional wisdom on how and when the end stage of the Cold War began. Aaron Donaghy teaches American history and international history at University College Dublin. He has previously taught at Harvard University and held research fellowships at Cornell University and the University of Cambridge (Churchill College). Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East Philip H. Gordon, St. Martin’s Press, 2020, $29.99/hardcover, e-book available, 368 pages. Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East at least once a decade. Philip H. Gor- don’s in-depth assessment of those episodes gives readers an insider’s view on U.S. policymaking at the highest levels. It is the story of repeated U.S. interven- tions in the region that always start out with high hopes, and often the best of intentions, but never turn out well. Philip H. Gordon is the Mary and David Boies Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a special assistant to President Barack Obama and as White House coordinator for the Middle East from 2013 to 2015, and as assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs from 2009 to 2013.