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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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H-Diplo Essay 386- Vladislav Zubok on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 9, 2021November 4, 2021 By Vladislav Zubok

H-Diplo asked me to contribute to this new series about the formative years of scholars who do diplomatic and political international history.  As I was thinking about my assignment, it occurred to me that I was one of the very few and privileged who grew up and studied in the Soviet Union at the end…

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H-Diplo Essay 383- Waren I. Cohen on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 2, 2021October 28, 2021 By Warren I. Cohen

Columbia College did not require a major when I was an undergraduate.  I didn’t take my first history course until my junior year, although I had worked earlier with Peter Gay, the great scholar of modern Europe intellectual history, when he was an assistant professor in the Government Department teaching Contemporary Civilization in Columbia’s core…

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Review Essay 60 on “Explaining Divergent Trends in Coups and Mutinies”

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 By Erica De Bruin

Military disloyalty and disobedience can take several forms.  Some acts of disobedience are individual in nature—a single officer refusing to follow a direct order, for instance, or deserting his or her unit.[1] Others, such as mass desertions or defections, coups d’état, and mutinies, are collective endeavors.[2] While instances of collective disobedience have often been treated…

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H-Diplo Essay 380- Christopher R. Browning on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

October 26, 2021October 21, 2021 By Christopher R. Browning

My parents were both raised and educated in California.   My father, with ABD status at UC Berkeley, was hired as an instructor in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1940 but—as a Norman Thomas socialist, anti-segregationist, and pacifist—was dismissed from that job two years later.  He quickly took…

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Review Essay 59: Nuclear France: Grandeur or Mirage?

October 21, 2021October 14, 2021 By Jacques E.C. Hymans

The major theme of Cold War France’s foreign policy was the reassertion of the country’s traditional great power identity.  France did not aspire to unseat the two superpowers as the most powerful states in the world, but French leaders believed that their country could and should also take a place at the global high table. …

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H-Diplo Essay 378- Stephen G. Rabe on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

October 19, 2021October 14, 2021 By Stephen G. Rabe

I start with a cliché.  I was destined to be a historian of international affairs.  An early memory I have is sitting on my father’s lap, while he read the evening newspaper and smoked.  This would be about 1953.  I was five years old.  My father had spent the day in hard physical work as…

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H-Diplo Essay 376- Robert J. Lieber on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

October 12, 2021October 14, 2021 By Robert J. Lieber

Reflecting on a scholarly career that began more than a half century ago, I’m struck by the confluence of social and historical context, personal inclination, and serendipity.  Unlike friends and colleagues who were part of the post-World War II baby boom, I was born just weeks before U.S. entry into the conflict.  The war engaged…

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H-Diplo Essay 374- John Prados on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

October 5, 2021September 30, 2021 By John Prados

Many of my colleagues have contributed essays revisiting their graduate school days, full of commendations to friends and collaborators.  I could do that too—and, in fact, my friends include many of the very authors of these essays—but I thought it more useful to spend this time on tools and methods.  As I sit to write…

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H-Diplo Essay 372- Kathryn Stoner on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

September 28, 2021September 30, 2021 By Kathryn Stoner

I was supposed to be a lawyer.  That’s what my parents had told me; I was good at arguing, I liked school, and I was really interested in politics.  But something went terribly wrong (or right, depending on your perspective) and my professional life took another path into political science and specifically the study of…

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