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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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H-Diplo Essay 368- S.C.M. Paine on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 By S.C.M. Paine

Two-time defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously remarked that there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.[2] Scholars and researchers aim at the known unknowns but should remain receptive to the unknown unknowns that may reveal themselves and upend the analysis.  Be open to those who disagree; sometimes they are right.  Reassessment is a virtue…

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H-Diplo Essay 366- Mire Koikari on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

September 14, 2021September 9, 2021 By Mire Koikari

“So how do you compare women’s status in the U.S. and Japan?” Despite advance preparation, I had not anticipated this question.  I froze.  No, I was not defending my master’s thesis.  The question was posed by an immigration officer at Milwaukee International Airport.  I was returning to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after a winter…

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Review Essay 58- “The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty”

September 9, 2021September 10, 2021 By Michael Franczak

On Earth Day 2021, at a U.S.-organized climate summit, the Biden administration pledged to cut U.S. emissions to half of 2005 levels by 2030 and earmark billions in new development aid for environmental projects in developing countries.  It was a bold recommitment to climate multilateralism, the administration argued, a restoration of U.S. leadership in the…

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H-Diplo Essay 365- Carole Fink on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

September 7, 2021September 2, 2021 By Carole Fink

It is an honor to join my distinguished colleagues in relating my career as an historian; but it is also a daunting task to create a useful and coherent narrative of the paths I have followed.

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H-Diplo Essay 359- Steven Aftergood on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

July 13, 2021October 3, 2021 By Steven Aftergood

When I arrived at UCLA as a 16-year-old undergraduate in 1973, the first Moon landing was still a vivid memory.  It seemed to herald wonderful possibilities, and even in retrospect it remains an amazing achievement—something altogether new in human history.  Although the astronauts who set foot on the lunar surface were nominally the heroes of…

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H-Diplo Essay 352- Priya Satia on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 22, 2021June 17, 2021 By Priya Satia

Agency is what we seek to understand as historians: the demiurge of that disciplinary holy grail, causality.  Who or what stirs the cauldron of change?  When and how?  When we reflect on our own lives, the elusive nature of that power becomes even more palpable.  How did I become this thing, a historian of modern…

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Review Essay 57 on Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan

June 18, 2021June 19, 2021 By Dipali Mukhopadhyay

There is a persistent paradox in the literature (and policy-related discourse) on warlordism that spills over into the larger scholarship on political violence and state formation: while some observers regard warlords as insurmountable spoilers, too strong and sinister to be tamed, others characterize them as paper tigers that could be easily dismissed with the right…

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H-Diplo Essay 350- Lawrence Freedman on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 15, 2021June 12, 2021 By Lawrence Freedman

I was born in 1948 and grew up in the north-east of England at a time when its two major industries – mining and shipbuilding – were in decline.  My father had joined the Royal Navy in 1938 as a regular officer.  This was quite an achievement for a working-class Jew.  He served through the…

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H-Diplo Essay 348- Tanisha M. Fazal on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 8, 2021June 4, 2021 By Tanisha M. Fazal

From about the time I was twelve, my father and I would stay up late during summer nights discussing politics. As an immigrant to the U.S., he focused our conversations around international relations, although I didn’t quite realize it at the time. Our talks ranged from the political to the personal.  I remember clearly a…

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