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,…
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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…
The Importance of the Scholarship of Dorothy Borg, Part II
For insight into Dorothy Borg’s scholarship, readers will find Part I of the tribute to her most useful—although even then none of us could avoid mention of her magnetism.[1] In the essays that follow, three very different scholars, each with a different perspective, describe how they were drawn into her orbit.
H-Diplo | ISSF Forum 36 (2002) on the Scholarship of Walter LaFeber
“Walt” Let me begin by talking about a picnic in one of Madison’s beautiful parks near a lake in midsummer 1957. It was ideal weather and the three of us (Walt LaFeber, Tom McCormick, and myself) were talking with our wives about our graduate school experience, the profession, and the unknown future. I was surprised…
Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part II
This is the second part of the H-Diplo/ISSF Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis, who passed away last December. The first part, which we published in February,[1] included over forty contributions, plus some other material: Bob’s essay in our “Learning the Scholar’s Craft” series, references to other articles in which he…
Forum 35 (2022) on the Scholarship of Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker was an eminent scholar of the history of US-China relations with a special interest in the volatile region of the Taiwan Strait. She began her academic career at Columbia University under the mentorship of the legendary Dorothy Borg, who gained renown for her studies of US diplomacy in China before World War…
Forum 34 (2022) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Dorothy Borg
Born in 1902, a granddaughter of the banker Jacob Schiff—who bequeathed $1 million to each of his grandchildren—Dorothy never had to work to pay the rent. Her family was part of the famed Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York and she appears as a young woman in a photograph published in Stephen…
Forum 33 on the Importance of the Scholarship of Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann’s long career in political science and international relations has been celebrated in several special issues of scholarly journals and a Festschrift.[2] It is important for a discipline to honor its greatest exponents. In Hoffmann’s case, that task has surely been accomplished. His students and close colleagues have collectively painted a rich portrait of…
