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Stephen Kinzer, Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future Times Books, 2010

Led by radical reform-minded rulers, Iran and Turkey embarked on a democratic trajectory in the early 1900s, and those two nation's democratic traditions suggests the basis for a future, very productive relationship with the US. So argues Stephen Kinzer in his new book, which recounts a series of turbulent and extraordinary events in the histories of Iran and Turkey.

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Lemkau and Strug, eds., Love, Loss and Longing: The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban-American Families Latin America Working Group, 2007 

Socialism and Democracy

Fifty years ago, a dictator was ousted and socialism began to took root in Cuba. How do Cubans who supported the revolution then feel about it now? And how have Cubans coped with hardships brought on by, among other things, the USSR's collapse? Robert Arellano's novel Havana Lunar is about a young, idealistic Cuban doctor. David Strug has studied older Cubans' understandings of the revolution.