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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable III-1: The Future of Intelligence

September 10, 2023September 9, 2023 By Richard H. Immerman, Richard K. Betts, Sarah-Jane Corke, Thomas Fingar, Genevieve Lester, Stephen Marrin, Amy Zegart

In January 2023, a year and a month after Robert Jervis passed away, the advisory board of the International Security Studies Forum (ISSF), under the aegis of Keren Yarhi-Milo, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, along with its senior…

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H-Diplo | RJISSF Article Review 162: Akhtar on Bateman, “Keeping the Technological Edge”

September 7, 2023August 28, 2023 By Francesca Akhtar

On 22 December 1984, shortly after a meeting at Camp David, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly confirmed her government’s support for the Reagan Administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a proposed US plan to establish a ground- and space-based missile defense system. Stating that she had told the American President of her “firm conviction” that…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-1 on Goscha, The Road to Dien Bien Phu

September 5, 2023August 29, 2023 By Tuong Vu, Martin Grossheim, Stein Tønnesson, Claire Thi Liên Tran,Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, Christopher Goscha

How was the Vietnamese Communist state formed? In Christopher Goscha’s The Road to Dien Bien Phu, that state was initially an “archipelago state” (1945–49)—“archipelago” in the sense of both its territorial shape and its coalitional politics—which then transformed into a “War Communist state” (since 1950), one that was dominated at the core by the Communist…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable II-5: The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship

August 4, 2023August 5, 2023 By Jacques E. C. Hymans, Reid B.C. Pauly, Rose McDermott, Marika Landau-Wells, Joshua Rovner, Janice Gross Stein

At the tail end of the Cold War, the journal International Security published a brilliant article by historian Marc Trachtenberg demolishing the widely held “idea that the First World War came about because statesmen were overwhelmed by military imperatives and thus ‘lost control’ of the situation.”[1] Quite to the contrary, he wrote, “The most remarkable…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-30 on Owens & Rietzler, Women’s International Thought

July 31, 2023July 18, 2023 By Georgios Giannakopoulos, Su Lin Lewis, Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, Ayşe Zarakol, Katharina Rietzler, Patricia Owens

This roundtable discusses a laborious effort to write women back in the history of international thought and expand the cannon of IR in interesting new directions. But this is not only an exercise in recovery. It is also a consistent effort to understand why it is that women have been marginalized in the historiography of…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 29 on Powell, France’s Wars in Chad

July 28, 2023July 31, 2023 By Rebecca E. Wall, Bruno Charbonneau, Armel Dirou, Richard S. Fogarty, Sarah J. Zimmerman, Nathaniel K. Powell

On 27 February 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech on the future of Franco-African relations. The proposed changes represented a fundamental reorientation of French activity on the continent, and would represent a major departure from French policy over the past 70 years. Among other changes, Macron pledged to drastically reduce France’s military presence,…

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H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 75: Hines on Deudney, Dark Skies

July 27, 2023July 12, 2023 By R. Lincoln Hines

With declining launch costs and the rise of private space companies, humanity appears to be embarking on another phase of expansion into the final frontier.[1] Billionaire commercial space leaders such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos tout this expansion as an unambiguously positive development, offering tremendous opportunities for prosperity, safeguarding life’s continued existence, and fulfilling…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Kennedy, Victory at Sea

July 24, 2023July 11, 2023 By Thomas Maddux, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Roger Dingman, John H. Maurer, Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy’s Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II, with illustrations by Kennedy’s collaborator, Ian Marshall, may mislead purchasers who are not familiar with Kennedy’s award-winning scholarship into thinking they are purchasing a “coffee table book with excellent artwork.”[1] Instead, Kennedy offers a persuasive study of…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 74 on Sagar, ed. To Raise a Fallen People

July 19, 2023July 6, 2023 By Martin J. Bayly

Scholarship on Indian international political thought has, until recently, been defined by a relative degree of paucity and narrowness.  The reasons for this are familiar. The Eurocentrism of the history of international political thought and its disciplinary ally, International Relations, bears some share of the blame, even if this is changing. Another limiting factor is…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Kisangani & Pickering African Interventions

July 17, 2023July 6, 2023 By Frank Gerits, Seung-Whan Choi, Benjamin Fordham, Dennis Foster, Patrick A. Mello, Emizet Kisangani, Jeffrey Pickering

Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering have written a groundbreaking analysis of African international relations. As a historian of international history, with a particular interest in Africa, who also teaches courses on International Relations Theory (IR) I can only applaud its appearance. Increasingly my colleagues, who combine international history and IR theory, and I are…

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