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Category: Roundtables

Roundtable 13-7 on The False Promise of Liberal Order

January 28, 2022January 30, 2022 By Alena Drieschova, Kjølv Egeland, William C. Wohlforth

The classic international relations debate between realism and liberalism has long been seen as rather old hat, if not reactionary, by scholars who are interested in new ways of understanding IR.  Yet in a post-Cold War world of American unipolar preponderance this dusty debate has taken on a new and unexpected angle.

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Roundtable 13-6 on Scorecard Diplomacy: Grading States to Influence their Reputation and Behavior

January 14, 2022January 6, 2022 By Alexander Cooley, Asif Efrat, Jennifer L. Erickson, Judith Kelley

What convinces a country to adopt policies it might have previously eschewed as unimportant or against its interests? In practice, the global governance toolbox is notoriously limited. States, international organizations, and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that want other actors to change their behavior are typically reduced to selecting between the unsatisfying options of economic sanctions, military…

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Roundtable 13-5 on Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents

December 17, 2021December 10, 2021 By Lawrence Rubin, Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Kelly M. Greenhill, Jeffrey Kaplow, Abigail S. Post, Paul C. Avey

For over seventy years, the policy and academic communities have debated the effects of nuclear weapons on interstate relations.  In this saturated field of study, there is little consensus except that a nuclear war would be devastating and that nuclear weapons aren’t going away any time soon.

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Policy Series 2021-58: Liberal Internationalism and Partisan Discontents into the Post-Trump United States

November 25, 2021November 27, 2021 By George N. Georgarakis, Robert Y. Shapiro

We completed this article in September 2021, just as the Taliban defeated the American-supported government of Afghanistan, and the United States worked to transport all of its citizens out of the country along with the people of Afghanistan who worked for and with its troops, contractors, and officials.  On the liberal internationalism front, this is…

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Roundtable 13-4 on Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics and on The Oil Wars Myth: Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict

November 15, 2021February 25, 2022 By Emma Ashford, Jeff D. Colgan, Anand Toprani, Maria Julia Trombetta, Jeffrey G. Karam, Rosemary A. Kelanic, Emily Meierding

Rosemary A. Kelanic’s, Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics and Emily Meierding’s, The Oil Wars Myth: Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict are deeply engaging and important books that advance our knowledge on the politics of energy security.[1] Both books challenge many existing assumptions on the role of oil in international…

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H-Diplo Roundtable XXIII-11 on The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War

November 12, 2021 By Fiona S. Cunningham, Charles L. Glaser, Vipin Narang, Marc Trachtenberg, Caitlin Talmadge, Brendan Rittenhouse Green

Do nuclear weapons revolutionize world politics?  For decades, the standard answer from international relations scholars has been a resounding yes.  This mainstream view, known as ‘The Theory of the Nuclear Revolution,’ is associated with scholars such as Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and Charles Glaser.  [1]It argues that nuclear weapons generate a condition of mutual vulnerability that…

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Roundtable 13-3 on Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 By Ryan Grauer, Jenna Jordan, Jon R. Lindsay, Lindsey O'Rourke, Joshua Rovner

The United States repeatedly tried to overthrow foreign governments during the Cold War.  More often than not, U.S. leaders chose covert regime change rather than overt military intervention.  Their persistence suggests that the story of the Cold War has as much to do with secret maneuvers as it does with nuclear strategy or conventional military…

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Roundtable 13-2 on Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

October 22, 2021October 14, 2021 By Valerie Hudson, Joshua D. Kertzer, Marika Landau-Wells, Janice Stein

Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics by Dominic D.P. Johnson is a welcome addition to the literature on Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA).  The study of cognitive biases has a long and rich history within FPA, with classics penned by luminaries such as Robert Jervis, Richards Heuer, Yaacov Vertzberger, Philip Tetlock,…

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Roundtable 13-1 on An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order

September 17, 2021September 9, 2021 By Hillary Briffa, Jasen J. Castillo, Alexander Cooley, Naazneen H. Barma

The United States faces a host of strategic geopolitical challenges today, many of which have long been brewing as a result of structural changes and some of which have been self-inflicted by successive administrations, most recently and most especially the Trump Administration.  In An Open World, Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper deliver a lucid and…

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Roundtable 12-14 on Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 By Deborah Avant, Boyd P. Brown III, Jennifer Spindel, Randall D. Law, Audrey Kurth Cronin

Audrey Kurth Cronin’s new monograph, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists, makes a valuable contribution to the literature on terrorism, technological innovation, and the evolving nature of national security in the twenty-first century.  The book deserves to be widely read by scholars and policymakers.  Deborah Avant, Boyd P. Brown…

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