As conflict continues to escalate in the Middle East and Africa, with the United States playing a key role especially in the Middle East, scholars and the public often wonder what led to this situation. In a number of recently published works on the trajectory of United States foreign policy over several decades, historians of…
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-19 on Bartel The Triumph of Broken Promises
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 14-19 Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780674976788 15 May 2023 |PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt14-19 | Website: rjissf.org Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Thomas Maddux | Production…
Policy Roundtable 2-2: Emmanuel Macron’s Political Revolution in France
When Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election on 7 May 2017, many in Europe and North America breathed a collective sigh of relief. Macron’s victory seemed to confirm an incipient anti-populist trend that had been set earlier that year in the Netherlands and Austria. In the aftermath of the Brexit-vote…
Policy Series: Neoliberalism, the Decline of Diplomacy, and the Rise of the Global Right
In 1993, the Czechoslovakian poet-and-playwright-turned-president Václav Havel declared that “the fate of the so-called West is today being decided in the so-called East.” Havel warned that “if the West does not find the key to us…or to those somewhere far away who have extricated themselves from communist domination, it will ultimately lose the key to…