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H-Diplo | ISSF Forum 36 (2002) on the Scholarship of Walter LaFeber

October 14, 2022January 8, 2023 By Lloyd Gardner

“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…

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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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Review Essay 60 on “Explaining Divergent Trends in Coups and Mutinies”

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 By Erica De Bruin

Military disloyalty and disobedience can take several forms.  Some acts of disobedience are individual in nature—a single officer refusing to follow a direct order, for instance, or deserting his or her unit.[1] Others, such as mass desertions or defections, coups d’état, and mutinies, are collective endeavors.[2] While instances of collective disobedience have often been treated…

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Roundtable 12-4 on To Build a Better World:  Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth

January 8, 2021February 10, 2021 By James Goldgeier, Deborah Welch Larson, Stephen Sestanovich

Building on and revisiting their acclaimed study of German unification and the end of the Cold War,[1] in To Build a Better World Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice set this subject in a broader framework.  They draw not only on their own perspectives as policy-makers, but on contemporary accounts and documents from multiple countries, and…

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Article Review 130 on “Partner Politics: Russia, China, and the Challenge of Extending US Hegemony after the Cold War.”

December 20, 2019December 12, 2019 By Huiyun Feng

There are good reasons to study Russia, China, and U.S. hegemony now. Facing common threats from the West, Russia and China have been moving closer since the 2010s. Are they going to finally form an alliance against the United States.? Will these rising powers seriously challenge or shake up the liberal world order that is…

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Roundtable 11-7 on Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945

December 16, 2019December 12, 2019 By Padraic Kenney, Umberto Tulli, Lora Wildenthal, Sarah B. Snyder, Emma Kuby,

I am pleased to introduce this H-Diplo/ISSF roundtable on Emma Kuby’s book Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945, an intellectual history of the rise and fall of the International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime (CICRC). It is also a transnational history based on archival research in…

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Article Review 121 on “The Hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 244: States and Statelessness in the Late Cold War.”

June 26, 2019September 26, 2019 By Danielle Gilbert

In October 1970, Lithuanian father and son Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskas hijacked regional Soviet Aeroflot flight 244. Several minutes into the flight between two cities in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, the elder Brazinskas handed the flight attendant a message for the pilot demanding that he divert the flight to Turkey and cease radio communications….

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H-Diplo Roundtable XX-14 on When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

December 2, 2018January 22, 2021 By Jeffrey A. Engel, James Graham Wilson, James Goldgeier, Christopher A. Preble, Sergey Radchenko, Timothy Sayle

More time has transpired between the fall of the Berlin Wall and today than the entire duration of that iconic Cold War barrier. Meanwhile, George H.W. Bush, the main subject of Jeffrey Engel’s When the World Seemed New, became the longest-living U.S. president, while there are undergraduates this semester who were born during the presidency…

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Roundtable 10-17 on The Cold War They Made: The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter

November 19, 2018November 17, 2018 By Lynn Eden, Robert Jervis, Colleen Larkin

Within security studies, scholars have increasingly called for work that bridges the gap between academics and policymakers and that moves beyond milquetoast nods to ‘policy relevance’ at the end of journal articles, and instead ask that theorists engage directly with their policy counterparts. In this context, Ron Robin’s biography of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter provides…

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Roundtable 10-11 on America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century

March 19, 2018November 20, 2019 By Robert Jervis, Bruce W. Jentleson, Rosemary A. Kelanic, Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Tony Smith, Stephen Brooks, William C. Wohlforth

Our reviewers agree that Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth have produced what Rosemary Kelanic describes as “an extremely useful book that should be required reading for all students of US grand strategy.” The reviewers have paid Brooks and Wohlforth the deep compliment of taking their arguments seriously, and any course on American foreign policy would…

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