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Article Review 141 on “Networked Cooperation: How the European Union Mobilizes Peacekeeping Forces to Project Power Abroad.” 

July 9, 2020July 4, 2020 By Antoine Rayroux

In this article Marina Henke takes an interest in force generation processes in European Union (EU) peacekeeping operations.  Even though the EU is the subject of the research, force generation in multilateral peacekeeping operations is indeed an overlooked phenomenon in general.  As such, and beyond the carefully studied and researched case that Henke examines here,…

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Roundtable 11-5 on Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts

October 28, 2019October 27, 2019 By David Edelstein, Kyle M. Lascurettes, Paul K. MacDonald, Evan Braden Montgomery, Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

In Rising Titans, Falling States: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts, Joshua Shifrinson offers an essential contribution to the renascent literature in international relations on rising great powers.[1] While much of this literature has focused on the strategies that declining powers adopt toward rising powers, Shifrinson flips this question on its head, inquiring about the…

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Review Essay 36 on Tokens of Power: Rethinking War

November 10, 2017November 4, 2017 By Jack Snyder

The fog of war plays a prominent role in Carl von Clausewitz’s reflections on armed struggle. In Ann Hironaka’s rethinking of war, that fog becomes all consuming, obscuring the information needed to understand and prepare for battle. Victory in war is unpredictable and tantamount to random in clashes between competitors with roughly comparable power (41)….

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Article Review 77 on “Polarity Analysis and Collective Perceptions of Power: The Need for a New Approach.”

May 23, 2017May 20, 2017 By Nerses Kopalyan

A refreshing look at re-conceptualizing the concept of polarity, Benjamin Zala’s “Polarity Analysis and Collective Perceptions of Power: The Need for a New Approach” attempts to offer a new approach in bypassing the definitional, conceptual, and measurement confusions plaguing research on polarity. Seeking to methodologically distance itself from the traditional scholarship on polarity, which revolves…

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Roundtable 8-15 on A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role

May 30, 2016February 2, 2017 By Melvyn P. Leffler, Jerald A. Combs, Lloyd Gardner, James H. Lebovic, John A. Thompson

John Thompson has been thinking deeply about American politics and foreign policy for almost fifty years. Previously, he has written luminously about the Progressive era and Woodrow Wilson. Now, he has integrated the conclusions of several important articles that he has written over the years and congealed his thinking about the motivations undergirding America’s assumption…

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Article Review 30 on “The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Success”

January 15, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

In his first inaugural address, in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reassured a country consumed by the Great Depression that Americans would “face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of unity.”[1] Yet at times of great political challenge, agreement on a clear, resounding objective does not guarantee unity of effort…

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Roundtable 7-2, What Good is Grand Strategy: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

October 17, 2014December 19, 2017 By H-Diplo

One could not ask for a more timely book than Hal Brands’s What Good is Grand Strategy? In the same month that Brands’s book was published a rather important figure in American political life offered his own answer. As reported by David Remnick in January 2014, President Obama dismissed the need for a new grand…

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Roundtable 6-8, “The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics”

May 26, 2014June 30, 2018 By H-Diplo

Easy answers to the numerous problems posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons will not be found in Paul Bracken’s The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics. In fact, Bracken has very little to say about what are often considered to be the perennial nuclear issues of the post-Cold War world….

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Review Essay 8 on A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

June 27, 2012December 24, 2020 By Ja Ian Chong

In A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, Aaron Friedberg argues that fundamental ideological differences, coupled with tensions inherent in power transition, have placed the United States (U.S.) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on a path toward increasing competition, and, potentially, collision. For all its apprehensiveness about…

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