FREEDOM ON FIRE Human Rights Wars and America's Response John Shattuck Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 390pp, US$29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-674-01162-7)
John Shattuck was United States assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs during the major human rights crises of the 1990s. Rwanda, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo serve as main chapter titles for his political memoir covering the period from June 1993 until he was appointed ambassador to the Czech Republic in November 1998. In addition to these humanitarian crises, two chapters cover Bill Clinton's human rights policy towards China and the final chapter presents implications for the "war on …