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Category: Essays

Review Essay 64 on America’s Entangling Alliances: 1778 to the Present

March 30, 2022March 24, 2022 By Eric Grynaviski

Much of the scholarly debate about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy concentrated on whether he had renewed traditional U.S. skepticism of entangling alliances with European states. Jason Davidson’s America’s Entangling Alliances argues that such a view is inaccurate. The United States made alliances from its birth. And, in doing so, it secured important American interests…

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H-Diplo/ISSF Review Essay 63 on To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300–1870

March 10, 2022March 3, 2022 By Richard Ned Lebow

This history of “the legal imagination” (1) from 1300 to 1821 describes the evolution of legal thought about matters of international significance from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. These include the rise of the state, religious diversity, colonial and imperial expansion, and the shift from agricultural to commercial economies. Each of these developments…

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Review Essay 62 on Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 By Jessica Soedirgo

While global COVID-19 vaccination rates remain uneven and unequal, the resumption of safe and ethical in-person fieldwork has started to become possible in some parts of the world. As scholars begin considering and preparing for this, both new and seasoned field researchers would benefit from reading Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork…

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Review Essay 61 on Pedagogical Journeys Through World Politics

January 26, 2022January 25, 2022 By Eric Van Rythoven

Teaching is often treated as the ugly step-child of academia.  Unloved, undiscussed, and often hidden from sight on the third or fourth page of one’s CV, teaching is typically relegated to an afterthought at the start of one’s career—a fact reinforced by how many graduate programs provide little to no training on how to teach. …

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H-Diplo Essay 400- Danielle Fosler-Lussier on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 21, 2021December 15, 2021 By Danielle Fosler-Lussier

I came to diplomatic history when the methods and knowledge base of my home discipline, musicology, were not quite sufficient to answer the questions I needed to ask. I am still a musicologist.  But my engagement with diplomatic history, and with history more broadly, has been formative for my work.  I believe, too, that musicology…

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H-Diplo Essay 397- Sheila Fitzpatrick on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 14, 2021December 10, 2021 By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Becoming a historian was perhaps over-determined in my family.  My father, Brian Fitzpatrick, wrote books on Australian economic and labour history; my mother Dorothy taught history; and my younger brother, David Fitzpatrick, would become a distinguished historian (of twentieth-century Ireland) in his turn.  But both David and I tried at first to avoid our fate,…

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H-Diplo Essay 395- Eliot A. Cohen on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 7, 2021December 1, 2021 By Eliot A. Cohen

My career has been, I suppose, that of a changeling – an historian trapped in a political scientist’s body, an occasional bureaucrat and diplomat, a Dean and a pundit.  My field has been that of ‘hard,’ i.e., military national security, but also military history, and some topics much further afield, to include a current project…

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H-Diplo Essay 393- Paul Betts on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 30, 2021November 24, 2021 By Paul Betts

Growing up in 1970s Phoenix was hardly an obvious starting point for a career as a historian of Modern Europe.  In formal terms of American history, Arizona was one of the newest political entities of the New World, having only acquired statehood in 1912, the last territory in the contiguous United States to do so,…

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H-Diplo Essay 390- Jacques E.C. Hymans on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 23, 2021November 19, 2021 By Jacques E.C. Hymans

This is the story of the winding path from my arrival at grad school to my dissertation and first book, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy.[2] My hope is that a step-by-step account of my journey will serve as useful comparative data for young scholars embarking on their own paths.

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H-Diplo Essay 387- Charles E. Neu on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 16, 2021November 17, 2021 By Charles E. Neu

I was brought up in a small town in west-central Iowa, where my father was a lawyer and long-time mayor.  He was a conservative Republican, critical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; Charles Tansill’s Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, was his favorite book.[1] Politicians would seek him out in…

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