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H-Diplo: diplomatic & international history, and international relations and The Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum
H-Diplo Authors in Conversation
Greg Barnhisel’s Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power and Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
H-Diplo Review 650
David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson’s Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games
“an encyclopedia of African American Olympic participation” –Erin E. Redihan
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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
H-Diplo Review 649
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui’s The Making of a Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974
“FIFA [has] ... become an influential voice in international politics and economics.” –Christos Kassimeris
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November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
H-Diplo Article Review 1252
John Bernell White Jr.’s “Breaking the Strategic Glass: The Carter Administration and Oman, 1977–1980”
“important...to understand how Carter worked to create a new security architecture in the Gulf after the collapse of the Shah” –Benjamin V. Allison
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November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
JF Roundtable Review 17-16
Tyler Jost’s Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation
“a central puzzle of decisionmaking in the realm of war and peace: why do leaders choose to start wars they wind up losing at high cost with little or no payoff?” –Jack Snyder
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-16 on Jost, Bureaucracies at War
t has been a long while since the field of security studies has returned systematically to the foundational questions of organizational process and bureaucratic politics raised by Graham Allison in…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
H-Diplo Review 648
Francesca Piana’s Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War
“a complex story that defines a period of in betweenness: from war to peacetime; from empire to nation-states” –Doina Anca Cretu
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November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
JF Review 148
Paul Schroeder’s Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered
“breaks with the majority of historians who believe that Germany’s restless, aggressive policy was perhaps the most important cause of World War I” –Thomas Parker
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Jervis Forum 148: Parker on Schroeder. Stealing Horses to Great Applause
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 148 Paul Schroeder. Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered. Verso, 2025. ISBN…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
JF Review 147
Lucie Kadlecová’s Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace
“countries may have to…allow for some genuine erosion of their authority and control…to reflect the limitations of any individual state’s control over the global internet” –Josephine Wolff
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Jervis Forum Review 147: Wolff on Kadlecová, Cyber Sovereignty
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 147 Lucie Kadlecová. Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace. Stanford University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781503638549...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-15
Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy
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“it was Reagan’s embrace of the Christian right and the white backlash to civil rights that helped pave the way for Trump’s populist movement” –Henry Richard Maar III
Roundtable Review 17-15 Max Boot, Reagan
Roundtable Review 17-15 Max Boot…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Article Review 1251
Jan Záhořík’s “Shifting between Pragmatism and Ideology: Communist Czechoslovakia and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia during the Cold War, 1955–1974”
“reveals the existence of loopholes for maneuverability within the Socialist-bloc countries” –Solomon Getahun
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November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
H-Diplo Review 647
Jean-Jacques Matignon Les 55 jours de Pékin: Journal d’un médecin au siège des légations, 28 mai–18 août 1900
“the Boxer rebellion was...a protest against foreign invasion and missionaries because advantages had been given to the missions” –Iside Costantini
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November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
H-Diplo Review 646
David T. Byrne’s James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography
“will help connect Burnham’s philosophy with the United States’ post-World War II-era political philosophy…[and] those who support current US President Donald Trump” –Seth Offenbach
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November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
H-Diplo Article Review 1250
David I. Goldman’s “The Autobahn Crises of 1963: The US Military and the Last Major Cold War Showdowns over Berlin”
“anyone who is interested in the history of Berlin as a Cold War borderland...will benefit from reading it” –Adam R. Seipp
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November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Jervis Effect: The Scholarship and Legacy of Robert Jervis, edited by Richard H. Immerman, Stacie E. Goddard, and Diane N. Labrosse
Find it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-jer...
The Jervis Effect | Columbia University Press
Robert Jervis (1940–2021) was a titan in the field of international relations. Part political scientist, part psychologist, part historian, and part policy... | CUP
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November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-14
Douglas Porch’s Defeat and Division: France at War 1939–1942 and Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942–1945
“brilliant addition to World War II military history” –Deborah Bauer
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The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-14 on Porch, Defeat and Division
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-14 Douglas Porch, Defeat and Division: France at War 1939–1942. Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781107047464…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-13
Donald Stoker’s Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present
“a critique of both American policymakers...[and] American scholars in their efforts to employ the concept of grand strategy” –Jeremy Friedman
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The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-13 on Stoker, Purpose and Power
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-13 Donald Stoker, Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Jervis Forum Review 146
Natasha Piano’s Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science
“a crucial read for future theorists of democracy” –Robert P. Jackson
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The Jervis Forum Review 146: Jackson on Piano, Democratic Elitism
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 146 Natasha Piano. Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science. Harvard University Press, 2025.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Jervis Forum Review 145
Paul W. Schroeder’s America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016
“makes it easy to understand why so many of those who knew him regarded him not only with great respect but also with affection” –John A. Thompson
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Jervis Forum Review 145: Thompson on Schroeder, America’s Fatal Leap
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 145 Paul W. Schroeder. America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016. Verso, 2025. ISBN: 9781804295762. 29 October 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Article Review 1249
Giles Scott-Smith’s “‘Of the Utmost Importance for the Survival of Mankind’: The Alerdinck Foundation, the Media, and Citizen Diplomacy to End the Cold War, 1984–1992”
“worthwhile to look at the way non-state actors advocated for change” –Rósa Magnúsdóttir
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October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-12
Liliane Stadler’s Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992
“challenges the view of neutrality as static, showing how Switzerland adapted this policy in order to maintain relevance” –Sandra Bott
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The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-12 on Stadler, Between Neutrality and Solidarity
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-12 Liliane Stadler. Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992. Brill…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-11
Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds.' Relational Peace Practices
“Peace should not be characterized as stagnation. Social change can be peaceful and aided by constructive conflict.” –Louis Kriesberg
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The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-11 on Jarstad, et al, eds., Relational Peace Practices
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-11 Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds., Relational Peace Practices. Manchester University Press…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
H-Diplo Review 645
Paolo Fonzi, Sabine Rutar, and Xavier Bougarel, eds.’ Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
“Food...as a means of propaganda, as a symbol of dominance and control, and a tool of revolution and empire building” –Gaj Trifković
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October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Jervis Forum Review 144
Tehila Sasson’s The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire
"challenges the faith in the market, self-employment, and small-scale financialization solutions as a path forward for developing nations” –John Shields
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Jervis Forum Review 144: Shields on Sasson, The Solidarity Economy
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 144 Tehila Sasson. The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire. Princeton University Press, 2024...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Jervis Forum Article Review 185
Wang Chenyi’s “Mao’s Cambodian Legacy: An ‘Ideological Victory’ and a Strategic Failure”
Why did the CCP support "the Pol Pot regime rhetorically and materially, even as it murdered...hundreds of thousands of Cambodian Chinese?” –Matthew Galway
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October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-5
Alexis Peri’s Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women
“sometimes power can emanate from unexpected places.” –Rachel Applebaum
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October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM