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Review Essay 22 on Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

April 18, 2014February 2, 2017 By Jacqueline L. Hazelton

Perhaps only Douglas Porch, with his encyclopedic knowledge of insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) and his broader military expertise, could have written this book. Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War is a magisterial examination across time and space of the history of COIN. It is intended to dispel the myths propagated around…

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Roundtable 6-6 on Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958

February 7, 2014September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

H-Diplo has assembled a very impressive interdisciplinary (and international) lineup for this roundtable; all four reviewers provide, in my opinion, excellent analysis. Each of them finds much to praise about the book under review, in particular Ted Hopf’s fascinating historical account of Soviet political culture during the first thirteen years of the Cold War and…

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Roundtable 6-5 on The Rise & Decline of the American ‘Empire’: Power and its Limits in Comparative Perspective

January 6, 2014November 22, 2016 By H-Diplo

Something about the decline of great powers provokes great debates, and this roundtable is no exception. In his latest work, Geir Lundestad deploys the formidable learning he has acquired in a distinguished and prolific career as a diplomatic historian to dissect the current debate on American decline. He considers contemporary concerns in a broad historical…

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Article Review 25 on “Why States Won’t Give Nuclear Weapons to Terrorists.”

November 1, 2013September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

In 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama stated that nuclear terrorism was “the single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term”.[1] The events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated the real risk of catastrophic terrorism. It also exacerbated existing fears that groups such as Al-Qaeda would be willing to detonate a nuclear device either…

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Review Essay 16 on The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves

October 4, 2013February 2, 2017 By Mlada Bukovansky

Who else but Richard Ned Lebow would, in what is ostensibly a political science book, offer us a dystopian reading of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, complete with the suggestion that a production of the opera should be set in Mao’s China during the Cultural Revolution? Was he envisioning an actual production, since he goes…

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Forum 1 on Marc Trachtenberg’s “Audience Costs in 1954?”

September 6, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer prize-winning Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam has understandably sparked renewed interest in and debate over the origins of America’s involvement in Vietnam.[1] As Lloyd Gardner and other historians have argued, the heart of Logevall’s book is his analysis of the crucial events of…

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Roundtable 5-5 on Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States is Not Destined to Decline

July 22, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Is the United States destined to decline in the twenty-first century? This is a seemingly simple question, but one that International Relations theorists seem destined to debate without resolution. How should we measure power? What are the most relevant economic and military indicators of national power? How should we weigh the various components of national…

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Roundtable 5-3, “Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy”

April 15, 2013September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

By the accounts of the three reviewers below, Kelly Greenhill has hit a home run. Their collective view substantiates the judgment of the International Studies Association (ISA), which gave Weapons of Mass Migration the Association’s Best Book of the Year Award for 2011. In turn, the reviewers and the ISA have confirmed my judgment of…

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Article Review 19 on “China’s Fear of Contagion. Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example.”

February 15, 2013September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

The article contributes to the literature about the Chinese leadership’s decision-making process at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen crisis by introducing new documents from the East German archives and the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library. Sarotte argues that one of the major reasons for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) decision to resort to…

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Roundtable 4-8 on Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power

November 19, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

Why do key Southeast Asian states seem to cleave to the perception that the United States is a benign and stabilising force in the region, in spite of its debatable record during and after the Cold War? In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power, Natasha Hamilton-Hart demonstrates that the ruling regimes in…

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