Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Suggest a Book
    • Copyright
    • Privacy Policy
  • Tribute to Robert Jervis
    • Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part I
    • Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part II
    • Obituary for Robert Jervis (30 April 1940-9 December 2021)
    • H-Diplo Essay 198- Robert Jervis on Learning the Scholar’s Craft
  • Publications
    • Roundtables
    • Trump Series 2021
    • Donald Trump and the World
    • Putin’s War
    • Tribute
    • Learning the Scholar’s Craft
    • Policy Series
    • Commentary
    • Essays
    • Forums
    • Article Reviews
    • H-Diplo Book Reviews
  • Indexes
    • Publications Index
    • Tag Index
  • Subscribe to H-Diplo

Tag: Pakistan

Roundtable 7-9, The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World

January 5, 2015 By H-Diplo

In Charles Tilly’s oft-cited formulation, “War made the state, and the state made war.”[1] In other words, the relationship between insecurity and state capacity is a direct one. As was the case in Europe, the need to fight wars caused states to develop economically and build strong state capacity, which led to the modern state….

Read More

Roundtable 7-9, The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World

January 5, 2015September 24, 2015 By H-Diplo

In Charles Tilly’s oft-cited formulation, “War made the state, and the state made war.”[1] In other words, the relationship between insecurity and state capacity is a direct one. As was the case in Europe, the need to fight wars caused states to develop economically and build strong state capacity, which led to the modern state….

Read More

Roundtable 6-3 on Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation

October 18, 2013June 30, 2018 By H-Diplo

Many scholars and policymakers concerned with the proliferation of nuclear weapons assume that the passage of time has made it much easier for states and terrorist groups to achieve their nuclear ambitions. For example, in their book The Nuclear Express, Thomas Reed and Danny Stillman reflect this common assumption: “Any well-industrialized society with the intellectual…

Read More

Roundtable 5-1 on Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States

March 4, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

How can we understand the important phenomenon of modern-day warlords, often associated with state failure and transborder criminality even as state leaders frequently rely upon them as a source of order or peace in the most difficult of conditions? Kimberly Marten’s Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States blazes a new trail in answering this question,…

Read More

Article Review 15 on “Does Decapitation Work?” and “Targeting Top Terrorists”

October 24, 2012October 5, 2015 By ISSF editor

Leadership targeting has become the cornerstone of American counterterrorism policy. Since 2004, the number of strikes carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles has increased dramatically. In 2010 alone the United States carried out 118 drones strikes, 70 in 2011, and 24 in the first six months of 2012.[1] In the past two months, the U.S….

Read More

Review Essay 10 on Cutting a Fuse, not the Fuse!

July 31, 2012February 2, 2017 By James M. Lutz

Robert Pape and James Feldman in Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It build on Pape’s earlier work, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.[1] This volume is designed to further develop the earlier argument in Dying to Win that the occurrence of suicide terrorism is…

Read More
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2

Popular Posts

  • H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-22 on Joshua Busby, States and Nature
  • H-Diplo|RJISSF 14-21 on Martin, The Meddlers
  • Roundtable 7-18 on Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire
  • Policy Series 2021-52: The Trump “Legacy” for American Foreign Policy
  • The Importance of the Scholarship of Dorothy Borg, Part II
  • Forum 28 on The Importance of Paul Schroeder’s Scholarship to the Fields of International Relations and Diplomatic History
  • Review Essay 53 on Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War
  • H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-19 on Bartel The Triumph of Broken Promises
  • H-Diplo Essay 248- Anne L. Foster on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars
  • Teaching Roundtable 11-6 on The Clash of Civilizations in the IR Classroom

Follow us on Twitter

  • View @HDiplo’s profile on Twitter

Tags

2021 Afghanistan Argentina Brazil Canada China Cold War Cuba democracy Donald Trump East Asia Egypt Europe foreign policy formation essay France Germany grand strategy history India intelligence international relations IR Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan national security NATO North Korea nuclear weapons Pakistan political science power reflections Russia/Soviet Union South Korea Soviet Union Trump Trump administration United Kingdom United States Vietnam war

Links

  • H-Diplo

Archives

©2023 | Powered by WordPress and Superb Themes!
We use cookies to improve your experience. By your continued use of this site you accept such use.
Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Functional
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Others
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
SAVE & ACCEPT