Books by Members
Madam Secretary
By Madeleine Albright
First Line of Defense
By The American Academy of Diplomacy
Diplomats & Terrorists Or: How I Survived a 61-day Cocktail Party
By Diego and Nancy Asencio
Our Man is Inside
By Diego Asencio
The Joys an
d Perils of Serving Abroad: Memoirs of a U.S. Foreign
Service Family
By Diego and Nancy Asencio
The Politics of Diplomacy
By James A. Baker, III
Currency Conflict and Trade Policy: A New Strategy for the United States
By C. Fred Bergsten and Joseph E. Gagnon
The 1903 Skinner Mission to Ethiopia and A Century of American-Ethiopian Relations
By Aurelia E. Brazeal, David H. Shinn, Robert P. Skinner
Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War: Cruise Missiles and US Security Policy
By Reuben E. Brigety II
Ambassador’s Apprentice: A Foreign Service Memoir
By Everett Ellis Briggs
Honor to State: Reflections of a Reagan-Bush Era Ambassador
By Everett Ellis Briggs
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By William J. Burns
Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
By Ash Carter
Hard Choices
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent
By Herman J. Cohen
The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures
By Herman J. Cohen
US Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik
By Herman J. Cohen
International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflicts: The Changing Context of Peacemaking
By Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
Diplomacy and the Future of the World Order
Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, Editors
Wandering the World: Personal Recollections of a Life in Diplomacy
By Walter L. Cutler
The Rules of the Global Game: A New Look at U.S. International Economic Policymaking
By Kenneth W. Dam
The Bear and the Porcupine: The U.S. and Mexico
By Jeffrey Davidow
Danger Zones: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s Interests
By John Gunther Dean
Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador’s Journey Through the Middle East
By Edward P. Djerejian
Foreign Service: Five Decades on The Frontlines of American Diplomacy
By James Dobbins
President Carter: The White House Years
By Stuart E. Eizenstat
Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar
By Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas and Jim Robison
America’s Misadventures in the Middle East
By Chas W. Freeman Jr.
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
By Robert M. Gates
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
By Robert M. Gates
In the Photo’s Lower Right Corner: A Conversation with Ambassador Harry Geisel
By Harold W. Geisel
Negotiating the New START Treaty
By Rose Gottemoeller
Congress, Presidents, and American Politics: Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections
By Lee H. Hamilton
Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
Edited By Howard M. Hensel and Amit Gupta
Chapter Six: From the Suez Canal to the Gulf of Aden – Ambassador David H. Shinn
Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir
By Christopher R. Hill
Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba
By Vicki Huddleston
High-Value Target: Countering al Qaeda in Yemen
By Edmund J. Hull
Mission to Algiers: Diplomacy by Engagement
By Cameron R. Hume
Modern Diplomacy in Practice
By Robert Hutchings and Jeremi Suri
Truth to Power: A History of the U.S. National Intelligence Council
Edited by Robert Hutchings and Gregory F. Treverton
Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy
Edited by Robert Hutchings and Jeremi Suri
American Ambassadors: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Diplomats
By Dennis Jett
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Bombs, Bureaucrats, and Billionaires
By Dennis C. Jett
Why American Foreign Policy Fails: Unsafe at Home and Despised Abroad
By Dennis Jett
Why Peacekeeping Fails
By Dennis Jett
Every Day Is Extra
By John Kerry
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East
By Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky
Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Daniel C. Kurtzer
The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011
By Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, William B. Quandt, Steven L. Spiegel, Shibley Telhami, Shibley Z. Telhami
The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies
By Dennis Kux
Yellow Ribbon: The Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen
By L. Bruce Laingen
Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History
By John W. Limbert
Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City
By John W. Limbert
Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray–And How to Return to Reality
By Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia
By William B. Milam
The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics
By Walter Mondale
Managing Overseas Operations: Kiss Your Latte Goodbye
By Tibor P. Nagy and Gregory Engle
Three Embassies, Four Wars: A Personal Memoir
By Ronald E. Neumann
The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan
By Ronald E. Neumann
Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History
By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and David A. Welch
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Edited by Aaron B. O’ Connell
Chapter One: Washington Goes to War – Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann
Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace
By Edward J. Perkins
The Eagle and the Trident: U.S.―Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times
By Steven Pifer
China Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew. a Personal Memoir
By Nicholas Platt
My American Journey
By Colin Powell
Ethical Diplomacy and the Trump Administration
By Charles Ray
Ethical Dilemmas and the Practice of Diplomacy
By Charles Ray
I Believe I can Touch the Sky: Stories from my Life
By Charles Ray
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
By Condoleezza Rice
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
By Susan Rice
Improving Decisionmaking in a Turbulent World
By Charles P. Ries
Dealings: A Political and Financial Life
By Felix Rohatyn
Doomed to Succeed
By Dennis Ross
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
By Dennis Ross
Front Line Public Diplomacy: How US Embassies Communicate with Foreign Publics
By William A. Rugh
South Asia and the Great Powers: International Relations and Regional Security
Edited by Sten Rynning
Chapter One by Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann
India at the Global High Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy
By Teresita and Howard Schaffer
How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States: Riding the Roller Coaster
By Teresita and Howard Schaffer
A World Transformed
By Brent Scowcroft and George H.W. Bush
Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
By Wendy R. Sherman
Hizmet in Africa: The Activities and Significance of the Gülen Movement
By David H. Shinn
China and Africa: A Century of Engagement
By David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenmann
Turmoil and Triumph: Diplomacy, Power, and the Victory of the American Deal
By George P. Shultz
The Leader’s Bookshelf
By James Stavridis and R. Manning Ancell
The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
By Strobe Talbott
A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet
By Arturo Valenzuela and Pamela Constable
The Failure of Presidential Democracy: Comparative Perspectives
By Arturo Valenzuela and Juan J. Linz
The Failure of Presidential Democracy: The Case of Latin America
By Arturo Valenzuela and Juan J. Linz
Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times
By William J. vanden Heuvel
A Life Unimagined: The Rewards of Mission-Driven Service in the Peace Corps and Beyond
By Aaron S. Williams
International Division – University of Wisconsin – Madison
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
By Robin Wright
To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
By Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice
The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
By Philip Zelikow
