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Article Review 153 on “The Obama Administration and Syrian Chemical Weapons: Deterrence, Compellence, and the Limits of the “Resolve plus Bombs” Formula.”

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 By Doreen Horschig

In this article Wyn Bown, Jeffrey Knopf, and Matthew Moran examine Syria’s possession and use of chemical weapons (CW) and third-party response.  In this context, they assess how compellence succeeded in Syria when deterrent efforts had initially failed.  President Barack Obama had set a ‘red line’ that signaled U.S. commitment to punish the Syrian regime…

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Article Review 151 on “The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990”

November 11, 2021November 4, 2021 By Julie Garey

The November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in myriad discussions about German reunification.  In addition to questions about the domestic future of Germany, concerns over who would be responsible for Germany’s security and stability and with whom the new German state would ally persisted.  Marc Trachtenberg revisits the February 1990 meeting wherein United…

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Roundtable 13-3 on Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 By Ryan Grauer, Jenna Jordan, Jon R. Lindsay, Lindsey O'Rourke, Joshua Rovner

The United States repeatedly tried to overthrow foreign governments during the Cold War.  More often than not, U.S. leaders chose covert regime change rather than overt military intervention.  Their persistence suggests that the story of the Cold War has as much to do with secret maneuvers as it does with nuclear strategy or conventional military…

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Policy Series 2021-56: Death Grip Handshakes and Flattery Diplomacy: The Macron-Trump Connection and Its Larger Implications for Alliance Politics

October 20, 2021October 15, 2021 By Kathryn C. Statler

Forewarned by a number of other world leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron was well-prepared for the infamous Donald Trump handshake.  On 25 May 2017 at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels, the two world leaders met for the first time.  With cameras clicking and video rolling, President Trump praised Macron’s “tremendous victory”…

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Roundtable 13-1 on An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order

September 17, 2021September 9, 2021 By Hillary Briffa, Jasen J. Castillo, Alexander Cooley, Naazneen H. Barma

The United States faces a host of strategic geopolitical challenges today, many of which have long been brewing as a result of structural changes and some of which have been self-inflicted by successive administrations, most recently and most especially the Trump Administration.  In An Open World, Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper deliver a lucid and…

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Article Review 147 on “Going Fishing versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Changes in How the US Enforces Economic Sanctions.”

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 By Clara Portela, University of Valencia

Unfamiliar with sanctions issues, and accustomed to their capitals’ discreet use of this foreign policy tool, the European public follows sanctions-related headlines with some puzzlement.  If the United Nations (UN) lifted sanctions on Tehran following the conclusion of the nuclear deal, why was it necessary to create a special vehicle for trade with Iran, the…

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Policy Series 2021-15: U.S.-UK Relations in the Time of Trump

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 By Kathleen Burk

In November 2016, I wrote an essay for H-Diplo on the possible impact of the Trump administration on U.S.-UK relations.[1]  My first paragraph included the following sentences: “If Trump himself knows what he truly plans to do – as opposed to what he would truly like to do – he has hidden it from the…

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Forum 26 on Robert Jervis.  “Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology.”  

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 By Elizabeth N. Saunders, Raphael S. Cohen, Benjamin Wilson, Robert Jervis

When Ben Rhodes, a top foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama, dubbed the Washington foreign policy establishment the “Blob,”[1] one question that probably occurred to many H-Diplo/ISSR readers was, “What will Jervis think of this?”

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Roundtable 12-5 on The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 By Dale C. Copeland, Joseph M. Parent, Kenneth A. Schultz, Bartholomew H. Sparrow

In 1895 Henry Cabot Lodge declared that the United States had compiled “a record of conquest, colonization, and territorial expansion unequalled by any people in the 19th century.”[1]  Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States, motivated by a potent mixture of security, economic, and ideological motives, pushed westward, subjugating once sovereign Native tribes and dismantling…

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Roundtable 12-3 on Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

December 21, 2020December 18, 2020 By James J. Wirtz, Jonathan D. Caverley, Keith Shimko, James H. Lebovic

The study of bureaucracy as an influence in the formulation and conduct of foreign and defense policy has receded in popularity since its heyday during the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the limits of bureaucratic processes, the influence of the decorum generated by organizational culture or even the constraints created by the overall structure of government…

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