Bear Braumoeller died in May 2023 while on a yearlong sabbatical at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. His sudden death surprised and shocked each of us, and it left professional and personal holes at Ohio State University and across our fields of study. We remember Bear as an eminent scholar whose work was recognized…
Category: Tribute
On the Passing of Tom Maddux
The H-Diplo and RJISSF Editorial Board and Editors are deeply saddened to share the news that Tom Maddux passed away on December 30, 2023. We offer our sincere condolences to his family. Tom joined ISSF when it was founded in 2009 and worked tirelessly to ensure its lasting success, as he had done for over…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum (44) on the Scholarship and Legacy of Leo Ribuffo
Leo Ribuffo (1945–2018) joined the George Washington University History Department in 1973. He remained a faculty member there up until his passing in November 2018. He came to be, particularly in response to his The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (1983), one of the leading…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum (43) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Robert Divine
In the early 1980s the precinct judge in the Austin neighborhood where I voted was Barbara Divine. Her duties were to ensure that the voting was fair, which involved keeping the advocates of the different candidates from approaching too near the polling place proper. A charming woman in other circumstances, she was formidable in enforcing…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Tribute to Scholarship and Legacy of István Deák
Professor Emeritus of Columbia University István Deák was an exceptional man. He was an excellent historian, a highly influential academic, and a university professor who inspired generations of students, as well as an extremely educated, broad-minded, witty, good humored, very kind, friendly person who was open to everything and everyone.
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum (42) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Robert Schulzinger
I didn’t know Bob Schulzinger quite as long as Diane Kunz and Michael Schaller, and about a half decade longer than Andy DeRoche, but our time did extend back thirty-three years. Like Diane, Michael, and Andy, I have such wonderful memories of this unique person. Anyone who met or saw him speak knew that he…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum (41) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Alan P. Dobson
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Forum (41) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Alan P. Dobson (1951-2022) 21 April 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jf41 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editors: Warren F. Kimball & David Ryan Chair: Warren F. Kimball Production Editor: Christopher Ball Contents Introduction by Warren F. Kimball,…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of George C. Herring
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Forum (40) on the Importance of the Scholarship of George C. Herring 14 April 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jf40 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Richard H. Immerman | Production Editor: Christopher Ball Contents Introduction by Richard H. Immerman, Temple University, emeritus. 2 Essay by Robert…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Forum (39) on the Importance of the Scholarship & Legacy of Marilyn B. Young
A good while before I met Marilyn Blatt Young in person, we were put side by side together in Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, edited by Barton J. Bernstein.[1] Marilyn wrote on American Far Eastern policy in the post-Civil War years to 1900, and I picked up the story by writing…
Forum (38) on the Importance of the Scholarship of John Prados
My first memory of John Prados is in the mid-1980s at my then-boss Scott Armstrong’s house in Washington, DC. I was just starting out at the National Security Archive, an organization Scott had taken the lead in founding, and then becoming its first director. I had previously been Scott’s researcher at the Washington Post on a project…