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Category: Essays

H-Diplo Essay 346- Laurien Crump on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 By Laurien Crump

“Do they do the Cold War in Utrecht?” was the first question I was asked after braving a cloud of volcanic ash to arrive at the prestigious International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War in Washington DC in April 2010.  Such was my enthusiasm to join, that I took my suitcase to Amsterdam Airport…

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H-Diplo Essay 342- Leila J. Rupp on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

May 18, 2021May 15, 2021 By Leila J. Rupp

I didn’t set out to become a transnational historian, but then again, I’m not sure anyone did in the 1970s. My story begins with women’s history.  In 1969, after my first year at Bryn Mawr College and a summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying French, where I first saw a poster for what was then called…

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Policy Series 2021-27: The Trump Administration and the Middle East: Not Much Change, Not Much Success

May 4, 2021April 30, 2021 By F. Gregory Gause, III

Much like its predecessor, the Trump administration came into office rhetorically committed to reducing the American military and political footprint in the Middle East and left office with the American role in the region largely unchanged; like its predecessor, it came into office ready to engage diplomatically on Arab-Israeli questions, with an eye toward a…

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Policy Series 2021-26: Trump’s Realism

April 29, 2021April 24, 2021 By Randall L. Schweller

The era of Pax Americana—ushered in by President Harry Truman, put on steroids during the neoliberal wave initiated by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and seemingly cemented by the profound changes in Europe after the Cold War—led many to proclaim the arrival of a final stage of global democratic peace and liberal…

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Review Essay 56 on Social Practices of Rule-Making in World Politics

April 28, 2021April 29, 2021 By Miles M. Evers

A few years ago, I asked a colleague, “what is the relationship between rules, norms, practices, and habits?” The colleague laughed and responded, “nobody knows.” We both agreed that constructivist scholarship had grown increasingly cluttered and vague over the past thirty years.  The literature defines a range of concepts—for example, norms, rules, values, identities, habits,…

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H-Diplo Essay 337: Carolyn J. Dean on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 By Carolyn J. Dean

Many of the essays in the series “Learning the Scholar’s Craft” suggest that for a number of scholars, “learning” depends as much on mentorship, intuition, and luck as it does on the research subjects one pursues.  In this respect, my trajectory was no exception.  When I went to college, I understood very quickly that intellectual…

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Policy Series 2021-25: Rendezvous with Infamy

April 27, 2021April 25, 2021 By John Milton Cooper, Jr.

“Wednesday, January the sixth two thousand and twenty-one—a date which will live in infamy—the United States Capitol was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a mob incited by President Donald Trump”—with just a few words substituted, this sentence repeats what President Franklin Roosevelt said when he asked for a declaration of war following the Japanese attack…

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Policy Series 2021-24: American Totalitarianism in the Age of Trump

April 22, 2021April 18, 2021 By Sophie Joscelyne

In a speech at Mount Rushmore on 4 July 2020 President Donald Trump stated that the United States was under threat from a “totalitarian” “cancel culture” which was eroding American liberty, “driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.”[1]  Trump’s invocation of ‘totalitarianism’ speaks to the lasting hold…

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Policy Series 2021-23: Aristocracy, Oligarchy, and Donald Trump: The Age of Distrust

April 21, 2021April 18, 2021 By Arthur Eckstein

In a previous essay, I set out the thinking of political philosophers in the ancient Mediterranean concerning the differences between what they termed aristocracy and what they termed oligarchy.  These thinkers defined the characteristics of these political regimes, and gave them the names we still use for them: both “aristocracy” and “oligarchy” derive from this…

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Review Essay 55 on Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support the Use of Torture in Counter Terrorism

April 20, 2021April 18, 2021 By Idean Salehyan

Many popular movies, television series, and even animated films depict torture as an effective means of gaining information from suspected criminals and terrorists.  Yet, torture, and cruel and inhuman treatment of detainees violates international treaties as well as U.S. law, and many counterterrorism experts have questioned its efficacy relative to other means of gathering information. …

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