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Tag: Russia/Soviet Union

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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Roundtable 2-12 on “Democracy and Victory”

July 1, 2011December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

In the following exchange Dan Reiter defends his argument that democratic states win most of the wars that they fight primarily because they choose which wars to engage in more carefully than authoritarian states do.[1] This is called the “selection effects” explanation because democracies are selecting which wars to fight and which to avoid. Here,…

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Roundtable 2-11 on Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts

June 29, 2011November 20, 2019 By H-Diplo

In Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, Bruce Kuklick focuses on the role of intellectuals in foreign policy making from the end of World War II through the end of the Vietnam War.  Kuklick concentrated on three overlapping circles of scholars and writers including experts associated with the RAND corporation, a second…

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Roundtable 2-8 on How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

June 10, 2011September 20, 2015 By H-Diplo

A little more than a decade ago, the world’s leading academic experts on terrorism could be gathered in a not very large conference room to discuss the state of the field. As a relatively junior researcher at the United States Institute of Peace at the time, I was in such a room several times. The…

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Roundtable 2-5 on International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy

March 14, 2011September 21, 2015 By H-Diplo

How does peace between states become an established social fact or part of the unquestioned order of things? This question drives Vincent Pouliot’s International Security in Practice, an innovative and provocative contribution to the theoretical literature on international security, with an empirical focus on post-Cold War Russian-Atlantic security relations.  While the challenge of theorizing the…

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Essay 2 on “A Closer Look at Case Studies on Democracy, Selection Effects, and Victory”

September 24, 2010December 24, 2020 By Dan Reiter

Are democracies more likely to win the wars they fight? This question has been of interest to historians and philosophers since Thucydides. During the Enlightenment, the question was highly relevant to the great issues of the day, as thinkers such as Thomas Paine wondered how emerging republics like the United States and France would fare…

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