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The three most recently published Roundtables

Authors: Norman A. Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa
Title: Reagan, Bush, and Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, David Anderson, Anne Foster, T. Christopher Jespersen

Author: Bradley R. Simpson
Title: Economists with Guns. Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
Reviewers: Ragna Boden, David Ekbladh, Nils Gilman, Laura Iandola

Author: Robert Bothwell
Title: Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984
Reviewers: Thomas Maddux, David G. Haglund, Wolfgang Krieger, Francine McKenzie, Andrew Preston



Volume I (2000) | Volume II (2001) | Volume III (2002) | Volume IV (2003) | Volume V (2004) | Volume VI (2005) | Volume VII (2006) | Volume VIII (2007) | Volume IX (2008)

Volume I, No. 1 (2000)

Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.  ISBN 0-520-21511-7.

Posted to H-Diplo on 1 February 2000

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Volume I, No. 2 (2000)

Michael Jabara Carley. 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999. ISBN 1-56663-252-8.

Posted to H-Diplo on 21 February 2000

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Volume I, No. 3 (2000)

Jeffrey P. Kimball. Nixon's Vietnam War. Modern War Studies. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 528 pages. Bibliographical References and Index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-0924-5.

Posted to H-Diplo on 16 May 2000

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Volume I, No. 4 (2000)

David Kaiser. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000. 558 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliographical references. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-00225-3.

Posted to H-Diplo on 25 July 2000

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Volume I, No. 5 (2000)

Marc Trachtenberg. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement:  1945-1963. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. xi + 402 pp. Abbreviations, bibliographical references, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-00183-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-00273-8.

Posted to H-Diplo on 14 August 2000

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Volume I, No. 6 (2000)

Joel Blatt, ed. The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments. Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998.

Posted to H-Diplo on 3 October 2000

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Volume I, No. 7 (2000)

Tony Smith. Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. x + 224 pp. bibliographical references and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0674002946.

Published by H-Diplo on 30 December 2000

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Volume II, No. 1 (2000)

Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser, eds. The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years. Cambridge: German Historical Institute, Washington, D. C., and Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Published by H-Diplo on 2 March 2001

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Volume II, No. 2 (2001)

David M. Pletcher. The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865-1900. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Published by H-Diplo on 24 April 2001

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Volume III, No. 1 (2002)

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations, 2 vols, Volume 1, Between War and Peace, 1696-1985, Volume 2, Neither War Nor Peace, 1985-1998. Berkeley, California: International and Area Studies Publication, University of California at Berkeley, 1998.

Hiroshi Kimura. Distant Neighbours, 2 vols, Volume 1, Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov, Volume 2, Japanese-Russian Relations under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

Published by H-Diplo on 23 April 2002

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Volume III, No. 2 (2002)

Arnold Offner. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Published by H-Diplo on 19 December 2002

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Volume IV, No. 1 (2003)

Julian Jackson. France: The Dark Years 1940-1944. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Published by H-Diplo on 1 September 2003

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Volume V, No. 1 (2004)

Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

Published by H-Diplo on 10 May 2004

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Volume VI, No. 1 (2005)

Simon Kitson, Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940-1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration. Éditions Autrement, Collection Mémoires no. 110, 2005. 268 pp., index, bibliography, ISSN: 1157-4488; ISBN 2-7467- 0588-5.

Published by H-Diplo on 2 June 2005

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Volume VI, No. 2 (2005)

The French Empire between the Wars and during the Vichy Regime Roundtable

Martin Thomas, The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society (Manchester University Press, 2005). pp. xxii + 408. ISBN 0 7190 6518 6.

Jacques Cantier and Eric Jennings (eds), L’Empire colonial sous Vichy (Odile Jacob, 2004). pp. iii + 398. ISBN 2 7381 1544 6.

Published by H-Diplo on 30 September 2005

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Volume VII, No. 1 (2006)

Kim Munholland, Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945, New York: Berghahn, 2005.

Published by H-Diplo on 5 January 2006

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Volume VII, No. 2 (2006)

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Published by H-Diplo on 18 and 20 January 2006 (Bernstein piece on 1 February 2006; Hasegawa reply to Bernstein on 9 February 2006)

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Volume VII, No. 3 (2006)

Mark Atwood Lawrence. Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.

Published by H-Diplo on 1 May 2006. Updated on 2 May 2006.

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Volume VII, No. 4 (2006)

Eric Alterman. When Presidents Lie:  A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Published by H-Diplo on 19 July 2006.

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Volume VII, No. 5 (2006)

Bruce Kuklick. Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. Princeton University Press, 2006.

Published by H-Diplo on 7 September 2006.

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Volume VII, No. 6 (2006)

Charles S. Maier. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Published by H-Diplo on 19 October 2006.

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Volume VIII, No. 1 (2007)

Kenneth Osgood. Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. (University of Kansas Press, 2006).

Published by H-Diplo on 26 February 2007.

(*) The views presented in Chris Tudda's piece are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of State or the United States Government.

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Volume VIII, No. 2 (2007)

Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns, eds. The Eisenhower Administration, The Third World, and Globalization. (2006).

Published by H-Diplo on 6 March 2007.

(*) The views presented in Christopher Tudda's piece are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of State or the United States Government.

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Volume VIII, No. 3 (2007)

Robert Beisner. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Published by H-Diplo on 14 March 2007.

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Volume VIII, No. 4 (2007)

Robert Kagan. Dangerous Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Published by H-Diplo on 29 April 2007.

Volume VIII, No. 5 (2007)

Klaus Schwabe. Weltmacht und Weltordnung: Amerikanische Außenpolitik von 1898 bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte. (World Power and World Order, from 1898 to the present. A history of the Twentieth century). Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005. ISBN: 978-3-506-74783-9.

Published by H-Diplo on 11 May 2007.

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Volume VIII, No. 6 (2007)

Seth Jacobs. America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). ISBN 0-8223-3429-1 (cloth); 0-8223-3440-2.

Published by H-Diplo on 12 June 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 7 (2007)

Mark Moyar. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 2006. ISBN-13: 9780521869119; ISBN-10: 0521869110 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 9780511243561 (eBook).

Published by H-Diplo on 2 July 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 8 (2007)

Geoffrey Roberts. Stalin’s Wars. From World War to Cold War 1939-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 496 pp. Illustrations, maps, chronology, bibliographical references, index. ISBN-10: 0300112041.

Published by H-Diplo on 22 July 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 9 (2007)

Wilson D. Miscamble. From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 414 pp. ISBN-13: 9780521862448 | ISBN-10: 0521862442.

Published by H-Diplo on 10 September 2007; Painter review revised on 12 September 2007 (addition of missing footnotes).

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Volume VIII, No. 10 (2007)

Robert Dallek. Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. New York: Harper Collins, 2007. 740 pp. $32.50. ISBN-13: 978-0060722302 (hardcover).

Margaret MacMillan. Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2007. 404 pp. $27.95. ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6127-3 (hardcover). [Previously published in Canada as Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World and in the UK as Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao.]

Published by H-Diplo on 23 September 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 11 (2007)

Mark Stoler. Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, February 2006. 318 pp. $39.95. ISBN-13: 978-0-3407-2026-4 (hardcover); 978-0-3407-2027-1 (paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 28 September 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 11 (2007)

William D. Irvine. Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des droits de l’homme, 1898-1945. Stanford University Press, 2007. 288 pp., bibliography and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-80475-317-3. $60.00 (cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 5 October 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 12 (2007)

Odd Arne Westad . The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, October 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0-52185-364-4. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN-13: 978-0-52170-314-7. $19.99 (paperback, published March 2007).

Published by H-Diplo on 9 October 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 13 (2007)

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: W.W. Norton, February 2006 (hardcover, ISBN: 0-393-05809-3); October 2007 (paperback, ISBN: 978-0-393-33072-4).

Published by H-Diplo on 16 October 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 14 (2007)

Tony Smith. A Pact With the Devil: Washington’s Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise . New York: Routledge, March 2007. ISBN: 978-0-415-95245-3 (hardback); 978-0-203-94114-0 (electronic). (hardcover, ISBN: 0-393-05809-3).

Published by H-Diplo on 7 November 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 15 (2007)

George White, Jr. Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy toward Africa, 1953-1961. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. x + 238 pp. Notes, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7425-3382-0; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7425-3383-7.

Previously reviewed for the H-Africa discussion network by Leland Conley Barrows (see http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11441169492495).

Published by H-Diplo on 27 November 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 16 (2007)

Marc Trachtenberg. The Craft of International History. A Guide to Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 266 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12569-5. $47.50 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12501-5.

Published by H-Diplo on 5 December 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 17 (2007)

Michael H. Hunt. The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained & Wielded Global Dominance. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, April 2007. 416 pp., 8 illus., 1 table, notes, bibl., index. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8078-3090-1.

Published by H-Diplo on 10 December 2007

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Volume VIII, No. 18 (2007)

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2007. Hardcover, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-374-17772-0.

Published by H-Diplo on 15 December 2007

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Volume IX, No. 1 (2008)

Barbara J. Keys. Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, October 2006. $49.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-674-02326-0.

Published by H-Diplo on 27 January 2008

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Volume IX, No. 2 (2008)

Philip Gordon. Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World. New
York: Times Books, 2007. $24.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978 0-8050-8657-9.

Published by H-Diplo on 2 February 2008

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Volume IX, No. 3 (2008)

Kathryn C. Statler. Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8131-2440-7.

Published by H-Diplo on 2 February 2008

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Volume IX, No. 4 (2008)

Melvyn P. Leffler. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New York: Hill and Wang, September 2007. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-9717-6 (hardcover, $35). ISBN: 0-374-53142-0 (paperback, $17).

Published by H-Diplo on 22 February 2008

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Volume IX, No. 5 (2008)

David S. Foglesong. The American Mission and the “Evil Empire”: The Crusade for a “Free Russia” since 1881. New York: Cambridge University Press, October 2007. ISBN: 978-0521855907 (hardback); 978-0521671835 (paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 20 March 2008

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Volume IX, No. 6 (2008)

Robert W. Tucker. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America’s Neutrality, 1914-1917. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 272 pp. $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-8139-2629-2 (cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 3 April 2008

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Volume IX, No. 7 (2008)

Jeremi Suri. Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, July 2007. 368 pp. $27.95 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-674-02579-0.

Published by H-Diplo on 17 April 2008

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Volume IX, No. 8 (2008)

Todd Estes. The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, February 2006. $34.95 (cloth).
ISBN: 978-1-55849-515-9.

Published by H-Diplo on 2 May 2008

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Volume IX, No. 9 (2008)

Parshotam Mehra. Essays in Frontier History: India, China, and the Disputed Border. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, November 2006. 320 p., $60.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-19-568375-2.

Published by H-Diplo on 10 May 2008

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Volume IX, No. 10 (2008)

Vladislav M. Zubok . A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, September 2007. 488 pp., $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8078-3098-7.

Published by H-Diplo on 19 May 2008

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Volume IX, No. 11 (2008)

Yafeng Xia. “The Study of Cold War International History in China: A Review of the Last Twenty Years.” Journal of Cold War Studies 10.1 (Winter 2008): 81-115. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2008.10.1.81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.1.81 .

Published by H-Diplo on 31 May 2008

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Volume IX, No. 12 (2008)

Edwin A. Martini. Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000. University of Massachusetts Press, October 2007. $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-55849-609-5. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-55849-608-8.

Published by H-Diplo on 9 June 2008

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Volume IX, No. 13 (2008)

Walter Hixson. The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, January 2008. ISBN: 978-0-30011-912-1 (cloth, $35.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 15 June 2008; updated on 17 June 2008

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Volume IX, No. 14 (2008)

David F. Schmitz. The Triumph of Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis, 1933-1941. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-57488-930-7. $19.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-57488-931-4.

Published by H-Diplo on 1 July 2008

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Volume IX, No. 15 (2008)

Richard K. Betts.  Enemies of Intelligence:  Knowledge and Power in American National Security.  New York:  Columbia University Press, September 2007.  264 pp.  ISBN:  978-0-231-13888-8 (cloth).  $27.95.

Published by H-Diplo on 14 July 2008

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Volume IX, No. 16 (2008)

Kristin Hoganson. Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 402 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $49.20 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3089-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5793-9.

Published by H-Diplo on 19 July 2008

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Volume IX, No. 17 (2008)

Gregg Brazinsky. Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 311 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3120-5.

Published by H-Diplo on 1 August 2008

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Volume IX, No. 18 (2008)

Ian Shapiro. Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror. Princeton University Press, 2007. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-12928-0 (cloth). $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13707-0 (paper). $14.95.

Published by H-Diplo on 5 September 2008

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Volume IX, No. 19 (2008)

Kenton Clymer. Troubled Relations: The United States and Cambodia since 1870. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. 266 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87580-615-0 (paper). $25.00.

Published by H-Diplo on 6 October 2008

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Volume IX, No. 20 (2008)

Robert Bothwell. Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984. Vancouver: Univeristy of British Columbia Press, 2007. 480 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7748-1368-6 (hardcover, $85.00); 978-0-7748-1369-3 (paperback; $34.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 14 October 2008

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Volume IX, No. 21 (2008)

Bradley R. Simpson. Economists with Guns. Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968. 376 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780804756341. Stanford University Press, 2008.

Published by H-Diplo on 10 November 2008

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Volume IX, No. 22 (2008)

Norman A. Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa. Reagan, Bush, and Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2008. 188 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 9780313352416 (hardcover).

Published by H-Diplo on 17 November 2008

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