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Roundtable 7-11 on the Congress of Vienna and dialogue between IR scholars and historians

January 30, 2015January 23, 2021 By H-Diplo

This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the Congress of Vienna. From September of 1814 to June of 1815, over 200 representatives met in the Austrian capital to rebuild the foundations of European diplomacy, which lay in shambles after over twenty years of war. It was the great powers, the “Pentarchy” of Austria, Britain, France,…

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Review Essay 25 on Logics of War: Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts

December 10, 2014February 2, 2017 By Robert Trager

The book produced by Alex Weisiger is a substantial contribution to rationalist theory in international relations.  Weisiger investigates the effects of commitment problems in international bargaining on the conduct, duration, and destructiveness of wars.  The book is among only a few works that closely analyze international history from the perspective of recent developments in the…

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Roundtable 7-7, The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War

December 5, 2014May 27, 2017 By H-Diplo

Debates over the origins of the Cold War have long been a staple of graduate and undergraduate courses on historiography. Tracing the shifting interpretations of such an important era demonstrates how the writing of history influences and is influenced by the periods in which the history is written. The result has been a familiar tripartite…

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Roundtable 7-4, Zbig: The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski

November 3, 2014September 25, 2015 By H-Diplo

As our reviewers note, of all the members of the small set of people who have combined distinguished scholarship and a stint as a top policy-maker, Zbigniew Brzezinski is the least studied, especially in comparison to George Kennan and Henry Kissinger. Indeed, the volume under review is the first to be devoted to him, his…

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Roundtable 6-9, “Flawed Logics: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama”

June 30, 2014September 14, 2017 By James McAllister, Aaron M. Hoffman, Jeffrey W. Knopf, T.V. Paul, James H. Lebovic

Heated debates about the merits of specific arms control agreements were a constant feature of the Cold War. Did the hawks or the doves offer a more compelling and intellectually consistent viewpoint in these debates? In his new book, which should be of great interest to both historians and international relations theorists, James Lebovic argues…

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Essay 24- “Did History End?”

June 2, 2014February 2, 2017 By John Mueller

Twenty-five years ago, Francis Fukuyama advanced the notion that, with the death of Communism, history had come to an end.[2] This somewhat fanciful, and presumably intentionally provocative, formulation was derived from Hegel, and it has generally been misinterpreted. He did not mean that things would stop happening— an obviously preposterous proposal.

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Review Essay 23 on Psychology, Strategy, and Conflict

May 16, 2014February 2, 2017 By Stacie E. Goddard

Each year, undergraduates in my introductory course on international relations read three articles by Robert Jervis. His classic “Cooperation under the Security Dilemma” forces students, so often used to thinking in terms of intentions and motivations, to recognize how structure can lead to tragic outcomes in world politics. They then turn to a chapter from…

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Review Essay 21 on Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012

April 16, 2014February 2, 2017 By Stephen Cimbala

Rebecca Slayton has given us a very informative and original study of the relationship between science and public policy in her book, Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012.  The author shows how the theoretical and applied science paradigms of two different disciplinary communities, physicists and computer scientists (which includes software engineers and…

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Roundtable 6-7 on The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

February 10, 2014January 22, 2021 By H-Diplo

International monetary policy is usually not a topic that lends itself to both intense academic interest and a popular general audience. Benn Steil’s The Battle of Bretton Woods, however, is clearly an exception to this general rule. As William Glenn Gray points out in his review, in less capable hands the wartime monetary negotiations that…

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Roundtable 6-6 on Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958

February 7, 2014September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

H-Diplo has assembled a very impressive interdisciplinary (and international) lineup for this roundtable; all four reviewers provide, in my opinion, excellent analysis. Each of them finds much to praise about the book under review, in particular Ted Hopf’s fascinating historical account of Soviet political culture during the first thirteen years of the Cold War and…

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