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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 14-20 on Reynolds, Need to Know

May 22, 2023May 9, 2023 By Sarah-Jane Corke, Sara B. Castro, James Lockhart, Michael Warner, Nicholas Reynolds

I must confess I love anniversaries. Particularly, I should add, the historical kind. And 2022 was a banner year, in this regard. Not only was it the 50th anniversary of the Watergate burglary, the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 75th anniversary of the passage of the National Security Act and the formation…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 14-18 on Lawrence, The End of Ambition

April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 By Daniel Sargent, Kevin Y. Kim, Alan McPherson, David Prentice, Sandra Scanlon, Thomas A. Schwartz, Mark Atwood Lawrence

Mark Lawrence is a prominent, prize-winning historian of US foreign relations. The End of Ambition shows why. The book offers a brilliant interpretation of US policy towards the Third World in the 1960s. It shows how the decade’s early ambition gave way to cynicism and accommodations with reactionary regimes. Lawrence organizes his argument around five…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Adler, Engineering Expansion

March 24, 2023March 17, 2023 By William D. Adler, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Gautham Rao, Stephen J. Rockwell, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Samuel Watson

Research on the physical expansion of the United States has a crucial subtext: the importance of geopolitics. The conquest of the North American continent and, later, the expansion into the Pacific and Caribbean facilitated the large growth of the United States, the great accumulation of wealth, and the addition of dozens of more states into…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review on Lupton,  Reputation for Resolve

February 10, 2023January 26, 2023 By Alexandre Debs, Brian Blankenship, Kathleen E. Powers, Jennifer Spindel, Danielle L. Lupton

President John F. Kennedy famously worried that foreign policy failures early in his tenure—the Bay of Pigs fiasco and his poor performance at the summit in Vienna—displayed his lack of resolve and acumen, which Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would seek to exploit. These concerns seemed to materialize when Kennedy learned that Khrushchev had placed nuclear…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 14-11 on Wolfe-Hunnicutt, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy

February 6, 2023January 25, 2023 By Robert Vitalis, Nathaniel George, Bryan R. Gibson, David S. Painter, Sara Pursley, Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

It is my great pleasure to introduce this roundtable review of Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt’s Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. I began corresponding with the author almost two decades ago, when he was a new graduate student and thinking about dissertation topics. Since then, I watched as he turned a first-rate…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Innes, Streets Without Joy

January 30, 2023February 4, 2023 By R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Mancina, Anna Meier, Katharine Petrich, Michael A.K.G. Innes

We must act against the criminal menace of terrorism with the full weight of the law, both domestic and international. We will act to indict, apprehend, and prosecute those who commit the kind of atrocities the world has witnessed in recent weeks. We can act together as free peoples who wish not to see our…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan & Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers

January 27, 2023January 13, 2023 By William Inboden, Conrad Crane, Todd Greentree, Elisabeth Leake, Jeffrey H. Michaels

Just over 21 years ago, the United States invaded Afghanistan. Just over one year ago, the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. Understanding the two decades in between, which became by almost any measure America’s longest war, will continue to occupy and often bedevil scholars and policymakers for years to come. The two books under review…

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Roundtable 13-10 on Humane:  How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

May 23, 2022May 24, 2022 By Anne Kornhauser, Jana K. Lipman, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Scott D. Sagan, Sarah B. Snyder, Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn raises many questions in his new, provocative book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. The four reviews, by Anne Kornhauser, Jana K. Lipman, Tejasvi Nagaraja, and Scott D. Sagan, engage deeply, appreciatively, and critically with Moyn’s work.  For Nagaraja the book’s key question is, “how the post-9/11 Forever War…

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Article Review 156- “White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States.”

April 5, 2022March 31, 2022 By Jason M. Blazakis

The United States is inexorably linked to the stain of white supremacy. It is a stain that has been difficult to erase despite multiple inflection points and opportunities to reckon with America’s racist past. The Reconstruction Era of 1865 to 1877 that followed the Civil War provided the first opportunity for the United States to…

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Review Essay 64 on America’s Entangling Alliances: 1778 to the Present

March 30, 2022March 24, 2022 By Eric Grynaviski

Much of the scholarly debate about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy concentrated on whether he had renewed traditional U.S. skepticism of entangling alliances with European states. Jason Davidson’s America’s Entangling Alliances argues that such a view is inaccurate. The United States made alliances from its birth. And, in doing so, it secured important American interests…

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