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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-5 on Ghalehdar, The Origins of Overthrow

September 22, 2023September 8, 2023 By Thomas Gregory,Benjamin Denison, Michael J. Mazarr, Lindsey O’Rourke, Melissa Willard-Foster, Payam Ghalehdar

In his fascinating new book, The Origins of Overthrow: How Emotional Frustration Shapes US Regime Change Interventions, Payam Ghalehdar discusses a private letter President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Henry White, who was the American Ambassador in Rome. The letter was posted two weeks before Roosevelt sent 2,000 United States Marines to establish a new provisional…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 77: Quinn on Nichols and Milne, eds., Ideology and US Foreign Relations

September 21, 2023September 8, 2023 By Adam Quinn

Much as ideology is often at work in US foreign policy itself without being placed self-consciously in the foreground, it quite commonly features in historical and political analysis without being named as such or made the explicit focus of discussion. When analysts do make it a direct object of study, however, the results are often…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 76: Roberts on Gardner, Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors

September 19, 2023September 6, 2023 By Priscilla Roberts

Hall Gardner, a prominent professor at the American University of Paris whose prolific writings on international relations range widely across the past and present, has drawn on his personal experiences teaching in China in 1988-1989 to produce an interesting hybrid volume.[1] A mixture of memoir and a somewhat autobiographical novel, his book also seeks to…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-4 on Ro’i, The Bleeding Wound

September 18, 2023September 4, 2023 By Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Alessandro Iandolo, Sarah Mendelson, Robert Rakove, Ronald Grigor Suny, Yaacov Ro’i

  Among the unanswered—and perhaps unanswerable—questions regarding the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan is the extent to which the conflict contributed to the USSR’s dissolution less than three years after the withdrawal of Moscow’s forces. Proponents of the view that the war had precipitated the Soviet collapse included CIA analysts like Anthony Arnold, who argued…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-3 on Zarkol, Before the West

September 15, 2023September 4, 2023 By Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Ali Balcı,Filippo Costa Buranelli, Ryan D. Griffiths, Jelena Subotic, Ayşe Zarakol

 I have the honor to introduce this roundtable on Ayşe Zarakol’s Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, a book that challenges International Relation’s (IR) Eurocentric focus on Westphalia as the beginning of International Relations by foregrounding the “Chinggisid sovereignty model.” According to Zarakol, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan’s world conquest…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Zubok Collapse

September 11, 2023September 3, 2023 By Norman M. Naimark, Michael Ellman,Nataliya Kibita, Julie Newton,Joshua Shifrinson, Vladislav Zubok

Vladislav Zubok was a witness to the end of the Soviet Union, and with this impressive book, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, he has become one of, if not the, leading historians of its downfall. His distinguished academic career began at Moscow State University and the prestigious Institute for the USA and Canada…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable III-1: The Future of Intelligence

September 10, 2023September 9, 2023 By Richard H. Immerman, Richard K. Betts, Sarah-Jane Corke, Thomas Fingar, Genevieve Lester, Stephen Marrin, Amy Zegart

In January 2023, a year and a month after Robert Jervis passed away, the advisory board of the International Security Studies Forum (ISSF), under the aegis of Keren Yarhi-Milo, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, along with its senior…

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H-Diplo | RJISSF Article Review 162: Akhtar on Bateman, “Keeping the Technological Edge”

September 7, 2023August 28, 2023 By Francesca Akhtar

On 22 December 1984, shortly after a meeting at Camp David, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly confirmed her government’s support for the Reagan Administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a proposed US plan to establish a ground- and space-based missile defense system. Stating that she had told the American President of her “firm conviction” that…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-1 on Goscha, The Road to Dien Bien Phu

September 5, 2023August 29, 2023 By Tuong Vu, Martin Grossheim, Stein Tønnesson, Claire Thi Liên Tran,Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, Christopher Goscha

How was the Vietnamese Communist state formed? In Christopher Goscha’s The Road to Dien Bien Phu, that state was initially an “archipelago state” (1945–49)—“archipelago” in the sense of both its territorial shape and its coalitional politics—which then transformed into a “War Communist state” (since 1950), one that was dominated at the core by the Communist…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable II-5: The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship

August 4, 2023August 5, 2023 By Jacques E. C. Hymans, Reid B.C. Pauly, Rose McDermott, Marika Landau-Wells, Joshua Rovner, Janice Gross Stein

At the tail end of the Cold War, the journal International Security published a brilliant article by historian Marc Trachtenberg demolishing the widely held “idea that the First World War came about because statesmen were overwhelmed by military imperatives and thus ‘lost control’ of the situation.”[1] Quite to the contrary, he wrote, “The most remarkable…

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