I’ve gathered us to discuss the importance of the concept of ‘planetary’ as a framing for environmental and political questions in the second half of the twentieth century (in the main).[1] We have all worked in some way on this idea because it’s impossible not to if you study the shifting ways in which we…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-20 on Reynolds, Need to Know
I must confess I love anniversaries. Particularly, I should add, the historical kind. And 2022 was a banner year, in this regard. Not only was it the 50th anniversary of the Watergate burglary, the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 75th anniversary of the passage of the National Security Act and the formation…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Article Review 158: McCoy on Fibiger, “Indonesia and the Third Indochina War”
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Article Review 158 Mattias E. Fibiger, “Indonesia and the Third Indochina War: The End of Containment.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 29, no. 3 (2022): 240–270. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18765610-29030003. 17 May 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jar-158 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Thomas Maddux | Production Editor:…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-19 on Bartel The Triumph of Broken Promises
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 14-19 Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780674976788 15 May 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt14-19 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Thomas Maddux | Production…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 68: Hedling on Crocker, et al, Diplomacy and the Future of World Order
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review Essay 68 Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds. Diplomacy and the Future of World Order. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021. IBSN: 9781647120931 (hardcover $110.95), 9781647120948 (paperback $36.95). Reviewed by Elsa Hedling, Lund University 4 May 2023 | PDF: http://issforum.org/to/RE68 | Website:…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum (41) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Alan P. Dobson
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Forum (41) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Alan P. Dobson (1951-2022) 21 April 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jf41 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editors: Warren F. Kimball & David Ryan Chair: Warren F. Kimball Production Editor: Christopher Ball Contents Introduction by Warren F. Kimball,…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of George C. Herring
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Forum (40) on the Importance of the Scholarship of George C. Herring 14 April 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jf40 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Richard H. Immerman | Production Editor: Christopher Ball Contents Introduction by Richard H. Immerman, Temple University, emeritus. 2 Essay by Robert…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 14-18 on Lawrence, The End of Ambition
Mark Lawrence is a prominent, prize-winning historian of US foreign relations. The End of Ambition shows why. The book offers a brilliant interpretation of US policy towards the Third World in the 1960s. It shows how the decade’s early ambition gave way to cynicism and accommodations with reactionary regimes. Lawrence organizes his argument around five…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable II-1: Post-Mortem on Iraq
The War on Terror defined US foreign policy in the first decade of this century. The counterterrorism security paradigm of the Bush era focused on counterinsurgency against non-state actors in adversarial or failing states, and it entailed the expansion of America’s force projection capabilities (‘stop them there before they attack us here’), expansion of the…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-17 on Jarausch, Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Embattled Europe presents a vigorous and richly documented defense of the contemporary European model, which according to Konrad Jarausch, is characterized by a truly democratic election system, robust welfare states, and peaceful international behavior. These are supported by both institutions and shared values. They offer, he argues, a better way of life than the United…
