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Roundtable 7-3, The Struggle for Order: Hegemony, Hierarchy and Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia

October 20, 2014September 25, 2015 By H-Diplo

How should we understand the changes in East Asia over the last quarter century? The region that has undergone the most extraordinarily rapid economic transformation in modern history is the subject of fierce contestation regarding the implications of the shifting material balance between East Asia and the powers that dominated in the Cold-War era. The…

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Article Review 27 on “What Really Happened in Planning for Postwar Iraq?” and “After War”

April 9, 2014September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Two years after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, as the Barack Obama administration contends with a drawdown in Afghanistan, significant new scholarship is reengaging persistent questions about both conflicts. Stephen Benedict Dyson and Renanah Miles share a concern with some of the conventional wisdom that has emerged over the years, and they offer sharply focused…

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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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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 5-4 on “Democracy, Deception, and Entry into War”

May 17, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

H-Diplo/ISSF is honored to present a special and very unique exchange on the issue of “Democracy, Deception and Entry into War.” The editors would particularly like to express their great appreciation to Marc Trachtenberg for allowing us to publish his extended essay “Dan Reiter and America’s Road to War in 1941,” as well as to…

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Roundtable 4-4 on How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace

October 25, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

Charles A. Kupchan has written an important book that poses fundamental questions for international relations scholars and policy makers: First, how do enemies in world politics become friends? Specifically, through what pathways can pairs or groups of states succeed in setting aside their geopolitical competition and construct enduring relationships that preclude the possibility of armed…

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Roundtable 4-1 on The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics

September 3, 2012December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

The relations between the disciplines of history and political science have always been both close and, partly for that reason, contested.   Political science grew in part out of history, which led its practitioners to be both deeply imbued with historical knowledge and to need to differentiate themselves from the study of history. Until about…

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Roundtable 3-19 on How Wars End

August 1, 2012September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Historians and political scientists alike should appreciate Dan Reiter’s How Wars End. It eschews statistical analysis for comparative case-studies because the answers are “complex and nuanced” (6) and defers formal proofs for plain-language explanations. The six empirical chapters are based on case-specific puzzles rather than theory-driven questions. The three reviewers—Dale Copeland, Hein Goemans, and Zachary…

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Roundtable 3-1 on Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq

September 1, 2011November 21, 2016 By H-Diplo

Several years before the 1979 publication of his Harvard doctoral thesis, Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954, John Dower had already earned a reputation within the fields of Asian and international studies as a pioneer radical historian and keen critic of U.S. cold war policies and the fraught relationship between the…

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Roundtable 2-13 on Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941

July 11, 2011October 5, 2015 By H-Diplo

Joseph Maiolo’s basic argument in Cry Havoc is summed up in the book’s subtitle:  How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941.  Maiolo does not accept the traditional view that the democracies in the years before World War II made a terrible mistake “by failing to arm fast enough to stop Axis aggression”(2)….

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