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Roundtable 2-1 on Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement

January 7, 2011December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Justin Vaïsse has emerged in recent years as perhaps the most perceptive French analyst of current American politics and foreign policy. But he is a historian by training, and in writing his book on neoconservative movement, his primary goal was to understand the neoconservative movement as a historical phenomenon. The book is not a polemic or…

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Roundtable 1-6 on America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist Interpretation

December 10, 2010September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

Norman Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa, have written a two volume narrative history of the Cold War. All four reviewers praise it as a lively and factually accurate account that, while breaking no new ground, would make an excellent text in an undergraduate course on the Cold War. Andrew Bacevich speaks for…

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Roundtable 1-5 on RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era

December 1, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

All specialists on the Vietnam War are likely well aware of the involvement in the conflict played by the RAND Corporation, the California based think-tank closely tied to the defense and intelligence establishments in Washington, D.C.  Many, if not most, have also made use of some of RAND’s documents in their own research. Recently, however,…

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Roundtable 1-4 on Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War

November 22, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

Just over a decade ago, in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the sudden revelation of new documents from the former communist countries, Cold War scholars were particularly keen to de-center their studies. By this, they meant internationalizing what they did, shifting the focus away from Washington, and not only exploring what went…

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Roundtable 1-3 on The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

November 15, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

Nicholas Thompson has taken an imaginative approach to the Cold War by presenting a comparative study of the public careers of Paul Nitze and George Kennan, two significant U.S. officials who participated in the Cold War from its post-WWII origins to its surprising conclusion.  With access to the records of his grandfather, Nitze, and 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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Article Review 4 on “Saddam’s Perceptions and Misperceptions: The Case of ‘Desert Storm’”

July 2, 2010October 2, 2015 By H-Diplo

Kevin Woods and Mark Stout have provided a valuable service to the scholarly community by using the trove of primary source documents captured by American forces in Iraq to try to reconstruct Saddam Hussein’s strategic thinking.  Those who follow this case will be familiar with their arguments, which they (and other authors) set out in…

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Roundtable 1-2 on “Politics and Scholarship”

June 4, 2010September 13, 2015 By H-Diplo

 Almost without exception, students of security policy are not only analysts and proponents of abstract theories, they are also deeply concerned with issues of contemporary international politics and have strong policy preferences. There are likely to be connections here, and it is by no means obvious that the latter are subservient to the former. With…

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Article Review 3 on “The Deception Dividend: FDR’s Undeclared War”

April 8, 2010December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

In setting up his analysis here, John Schuessler refers to one of the arguments Dan Reiter and Allan Stam make in their book Democracies at War.  Democracies, those authors claim, “produce better estimates of the probability of victory than their autocratic counterparts do,” and they do so in large part because in democracies these issues…

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Article Review 1 on “Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War”

March 18, 2010October 5, 2015 By H-Diplo

Not only is Francis Gavin one of those rare individuals today who actually remembers the Cold War, but he believes it is relevant to today’s concerns. In this bright and engaging article, he examines several myths concerning the Cold War and nuclear weapons and the alarm they have so routinely inspired.    

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