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H-Diplo Essay 393- Paul Betts on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 30, 2021November 24, 2021 By Paul Betts

Growing up in 1970s Phoenix was hardly an obvious starting point for a career as a historian of Modern Europe.  In formal terms of American history, Arizona was one of the newest political entities of the New World, having only acquired statehood in 1912, the last territory in the contiguous United States to do so,…

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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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Article Review 152 on “To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States.”

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 By James Igoe Walsh

States in competition with each other have powerful incentives to engage in deception.  Adversaries use deception to convince each other that their resolve is high and that they possess powerful military capabilities.[1] More puzzling is why states that are aligned with each other—which is understood as “a set of mutual expectations between two or more…

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H-Diplo Essay 390- Jacques E.C. Hymans on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 23, 2021November 19, 2021 By Jacques E.C. Hymans

This is the story of the winding path from my arrival at grad school to my dissertation and first book, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy.[2] My hope is that a step-by-step account of my journey will serve as useful comparative data for young scholars embarking on their own paths.

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Forum 30 on the Importance of the Scholarship of Eric D. Weitz

November 17, 2021January 8, 2023 By A. Dirk Moses, Taner Akçam, Anne M. Kornhauser, Norman M. Naimark, Mary Nolan

Eric D. Weitz was a colleague and friend who was taken from us prematurely on July 1, 2021.  Fittingly, H-Diplo is hosting a forum to honor his memory.  When I approached Taner Akçam, Anne Kornhauser, Norman Naimark, and Mary Nolan to participate, they accepted without hesitation.  I selected these scholars in order to cover the…

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H-Diplo Essay 387- Charles E. Neu on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 16, 2021November 17, 2021 By Charles E. Neu

I was brought up in a small town in west-central Iowa, where my father was a lawyer and long-time mayor.  He was a conservative Republican, critical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; Charles Tansill’s Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, was his favorite book.[1] Politicians would seek him out in…

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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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Article Review 151 on “The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990”

November 11, 2021November 4, 2021 By Julie Garey

The November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in myriad discussions about German reunification.  In addition to questions about the domestic future of Germany, concerns over who would be responsible for Germany’s security and stability and with whom the new German state would ally persisted.  Marc Trachtenberg revisits the February 1990 meeting wherein United…

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H-Diplo Essay 386- Vladislav Zubok on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 9, 2021November 4, 2021 By Vladislav Zubok

H-Diplo asked me to contribute to this new series about the formative years of scholars who do diplomatic and political international history.  As I was thinking about my assignment, it occurred to me that I was one of the very few and privileged who grew up and studied in the Soviet Union at the end…

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