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 66 Brew on Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
The first twenty years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a seemingly never-ending sequence of global calamities. From 9/11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 and Great Recession, the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war, Brexit, the 2016 election of Donald Trump, and the 2020 COVID…