THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2024 35 Allison Pugh was in the Foreign Service from 1991 to 1994, serving in Honduras and the Operations Center in Washington, D.C. Strengthening International Regimes: The Case of Radiation Protection Daniel Serwer, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024, $119.99/hardcover, e-book available, 431 pages. In Strengthening International Regimes, retired Foreign Service O cer Daniel Serwer traces the history of international radiation protection norms from 1896 to the present. Serwer explains how and why a mechanism with no legal authority has become universal and applies the lessons learned to other pressing issues that require a balance between risks and bene ts, such as arti cial intelligence, human genome editing, and climate change. is book will interest readers who seek to understand how to set resilient international norms that balance risks and bene ts in today’s con ictriddled world. Daniel Serwer served as a State Department FSO from 1977 to 1998. After retirement, he became a vice president at the United States Institute of Peace. He is currently a professor and senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. FICTION Return of the Silent Sovereign: A Space Fantasy of War, Passion and Second Chances Judith Baroody, independently published, 2023, $9.99/paperback, e-book available, 294 pages. A Star Fleet admiral embarks on a suicide mission to save her crew and enters a space-time warp. She awakens as a baby on her home planet 300 years later with the memory of her previous life intact. Aware that the thousand-year civil war dividing her planet will lead to the extinction of her civilization, she returns to space to nd a solution. Her journey leads her to vengeful fanatics, ballerinas in desperate straits, and an archenemy who may be the key to saving her world. As a public diplomacy Foreign Service o cer from 1984 to 2017, Judith Baroody served in Damascus, Tel Aviv, Casablanca, Nicosia, Santiago, Baghdad, and Paris. Baroody has a PhD in international relations and has taught at both American University and the National War College. She served as chair of the FSJ Editorial Board from 2011 to 2013. Baroody is also the author of Media Access and the Military (1998), Casablanca Blue (2020), and Paris Gold (2022). The Chrysalis Option: A Kiana Azunna Novel Eric Coulson, independently published, 2024, $16.95/paperback, e-book available, 345 pages. When Kiana Azunna, the rst woman Royal Marine commando, leads a mission into Afghanistan as the country is collapsing, the operation goes wrong, and she nds herself recruited by Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service on a voyage of adventure and self-discovery. Kiana travels across Türkiye, Syria, and Ukraine, only to end up in Nigeria confronting a threat to peace and the person who was responsible for her parents’ deaths. Retired FSO and former U.S. Army o cer Eric Coulson joined the State Department in 2015 and served in Abuja, Santo Domingo, and London before retiring in 2022. and far away (Book One of the Man Series) Robert Richard Downes, Longhornbar Book, 2024, $14.95/paperback, e-book available, 200 pages. Set in 2004, and far away follows a retired—and tired—intelligence o cer who just wants to relax at his home in New England with his books and his cats. But his former employer keeps calling him back to undertake special projects. In this book, the rst of a series, he reluctantly agrees to help combat an international crime network. Robert Richard Downes is a retired Senior Foreign Service o cer with 37 years of federal service, the majority with the State Department. He joined the department in 1981 and served in
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