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H-Diplo Commentary by Philip Zelikow on “‘Documentary Evidence’ and Llewellyn Thompson’s Berlin/Cuba Assessment of Soviet Motives in the October 1962 Missile Crisis.”

December 10, 2018December 8, 2018 By Philip Zelikow

In a favorable review of The Kremlinologist, the fine recent biography of the great American diplomat and Soviet expert Llewellyn “Tommy” Thompson that was written by his daughters, David Foglesong added this curious cavil. “The Thompsons argue that the Cuban missile crisis stemmed from [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev’s seeing ‘an irresistible opportunity to use missiles…

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H-Diplo Roundtable XX-14 on When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

December 2, 2018January 22, 2021 By Jeffrey A. Engel, James Graham Wilson, James Goldgeier, Christopher A. Preble, Sergey Radchenko, Timothy Sayle

More time has transpired between the fall of the Berlin Wall and today than the entire duration of that iconic Cold War barrier. Meanwhile, George H.W. Bush, the main subject of Jeffrey Engel’s When the World Seemed New, became the longest-living U.S. president, while there are undergraduates this semester who were born during the presidency…

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Article Review 106 on “The Other Hidden Hand: Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in Allende’s Chile.”

November 23, 2018November 17, 2018 By Dirk Kruijt

Kristian Gustafson and Christopher Andrew rightly state that the presence of U.S. intelligence during the Salvador Allende government is well known and well documented, whereas the role of Cuban and Soviet intelligence in Chile is understudied. Their article is a welcome publication for two reasons: an analytical one for presenting a study of Soviet and…

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Review Essay 34 on Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977-1981

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 By Harvey M. Sapolsky

Edward C. Keefer provides us with the “authorized, but not official” history of Harold Brown’s tenure as the 14th Secretary of Defense as part of the Department of Defense series on its secretaries. It is authorized in that Keefer had access to the official records, but not official in that Keefer’s assessment of Brown’s time…

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Roundtable 9-12 on Return to Cold War

March 3, 2017March 4, 2017 By Kimberly Marten, James M. Goldgeier, Rajan Menon, Condoleezza Rice, Angela Stent, Robert Legvold

As President Donald Trump’s administration begins, relations between the United States and Russia make the headlines almost every day. No one seems able to agree on what Russian President Vladimir Putin did or did not do to try to influence the 2016 U.S. elections, much less on what his ultimate aims are. Trump’s own cabinet…

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Roundtable 9-3 on Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Weapons Development

October 3, 2016December 24, 2020 By Lynn Eden, Philip R. Egert, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Alexander H. Montgomery, Alex Spelling, Sonia Ben Ouargrham-Gormley

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley’s outstanding Barriers to Bioweapons demonstrates that while it may be relatively easy to pick your poison, there are very significant barriers to manufacturing it. Her main argument, as our reviewers so clearly explain, is that making bioweapons—that is, ‘weaponizing’ biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, and many others—has been far more…

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Roundtable 8-19 on Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

August 1, 2016November 20, 2019 By Robert Jervis, Paul R. Pillar, Robert Pringle, David R. Stone, Jonathan Haslam

If intelligence has now received sufficient attention so that it is no longer the hidden dimension of international politics, Soviet intelligence still fits this categorization. Our three reviewers welcome Jonathan Haslam’s lively overview of the subject and commend him for drawing on so many of the documents which, although revealing as far as they go,…

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Roundtable 8-14 on Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy: Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration

May 23, 2016November 20, 2019 By Thomas Maddux, Matthew Alan Hill, Michael McKoy, Tom Nichols, Lauren Turek, James Graham Wilson, Robert Pee

In Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy: Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration, Robert Pee explores the United States’ attempts to promote democracy abroad during the Reagan administration. The title of Pee’s book captures a central challenge Washington faced with this issue not only during the 1980s but also throughout the Cold War after 1945….

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Roundtable 4-6, “American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security”

November 5, 2012January 28, 2016 By ISSF editor

The community of national security scholars benefits whenever Richard K. Betts publishes a new article or book, because his work is consistently well researched, gracefully written, thoughtful, and provocative. I find this work to be no exception and said so on the jacket cover when the book was published. The distinguished reviewers gathered here agree…

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Roundtable 3-11 on Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia

March 7, 2012September 10, 2015 By H-Diplo

Thomas Christensen has written an important book in which he examines several key episodes during the Cold War in Asia, including the Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954–55 and 1958, and the Vietnam War. In Worse than a Monolith, Christensen uses these Cold War flashpoints to test and refine existing theories of alliance…

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