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Category: Roundtables

Roundtable 3-19 on How Wars End

August 1, 2012September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Historians and political scientists alike should appreciate Dan Reiter’s How Wars End. It eschews statistical analysis for comparative case-studies because the answers are “complex and nuanced” (6) and defers formal proofs for plain-language explanations. The six empirical chapters are based on case-specific puzzles rather than theory-driven questions. The three reviewers—Dale Copeland, Hein Goemans, and Zachary…

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Roundtable 3-18 on China, the United States, and Global Order

July 25, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

In this new book, British scholars Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter attempt to identify the factors that shape Chinese and American behavioral consistency (or lack thereof) with global governance norms and structures. They compare U.S. and Chinese compliance with five sets of norms: the non-use of force except in self-defense and the responsibility to protect,…

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Roundtable 3-17 on Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

July 9, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

The U.S. intelligence failures associated with 9/11 and with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction generated renewed interest in the question of intelligence failure, the study of which had been disproportionately influenced by the study of the failures at Pearl Harbor, Barbarossa, and Yom Kipper.[1] The Iraqi WMD case in particular focused more attention on the…

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Roundtable 3-16 on Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises

June 18, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

International crises often give rise to commissions designed to assess the origins of the crises and to generate reforms that might improve American foreign and defense policies. Jordan Tama’s exceptional study assesses the impact of fifty-one Congressional and Executive commissions established between 1961 and 2006 that focused on issues of national security and terrorism.  …

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Roundtable 3-15 on Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform

June 4, 2012January 22, 2021 By H-Diplo

Intelligence is an odd area of study.  While it has always been fascinating to the general public, until recently it was the “missing dimension” of foreign policy, ignored by serious scholars because information was lacking and it had the stigma of being the playground for cranks if not frauds.  The increasing availability of documents, a…

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Roundtable 3-14 on Perceptions of Cuba: Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

May 29, 2012December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Lana Wylie has enhanced our understanding of Canadian and U.S. policies toward Fidel Castro’s Cuba by providing a comparative perspective that extends from 1959 to the present.  Wylie applies a constructivist approach which proposes that “culture and identity are integral to a complete understanding of the dynamics of international relations.” (6) Wylie proposes to move…

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Roundtable 3-13 on In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11

April 30, 2012September 10, 2015 By H-Diplo

This edited volume makes a unique contribution to the field of American foreign policy by bringing together scholars and policy makers to assess two key turning points in American politics: the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  As the editors, Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey…

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Roundtable 3-12 on The Threat on the Horizon: An Inside Account of America’s Search for Security after the Cold War

April 23, 2012September 10, 2015 By H-Diplo

With The Threat on the Horizon, Loch Johnson adds to his distinguished record of publications on the topic of United States intelligence.  The book is part monograph, examining the Aspin-Brown Commission tasked with reforming intelligence in the 1990s; part autobiography, drawing on Johnson’s role as the Chairman’s assistant on the Commission; and part policy analysis,…

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Roundtable 3-11 on Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia

March 7, 2012September 10, 2015 By H-Diplo

Thomas Christensen has written an important book in which he examines several key episodes during the Cold War in Asia, including the Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954–55 and 1958, and the Vietnam War. In Worse than a Monolith, Christensen uses these Cold War flashpoints to test and refine existing theories of alliance…

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Roundtable 3-10 on The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Relations

February 29, 2012September 10, 2015 By H-Diplo

While knowledgeable observers rightly discounted the geopolitical significance of China’s launch of the refurbished Russian aircraft carrier Varyag last August, the event did underscore the salience of the topic of this H-Diplo roundtable. No student of international relations can be indifferent to the questions that Michael Horowitz addresses in Diffusion of Military Power.  Will China…

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