The H-Diplo DiscussionNETWORK is a moderated, electronic list with over 4,600 subscribers who discuss foreign relations history, broadly defined. The list has a companion RSS feed and full online archives of all content dating back to 1993. (more»)

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We commission scholarly reviews of academic articles on topics in foreign relations history cover both print and online-only journals, including Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, and History Compass. (more»)

Reviewer: Dustin Walcher
Article Author: Marcelo Bucheli
Journal Issue: Business History Review 82:3 (Autumn 2008)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review of Marcelo Bucheli. “Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil.” Business History Review 82:3 (Autumn 2008): 529-553.
Publication Date: 1 July 2009

Reviewer: Ross A. Kennedy
Article Author(s): Giles Scott-Smith; Serge Ricard; William N. Tilchin; Jeffrey A. Engel; Annick Cizel; Carl Cavanagh Hodge; J. Simon Rofe; David G. Haglund; M. Patrick Cullinane.
Journal Issue: Diplomacy and Statecraft 19.4 (December 2008)
Title(s): H-Diplo Article Review of Diplomacy and Statecraft, Special Issue on The Legacies of Theodore Roosevelt
Publication Date: 25 June 2009

Reviewer: William R. Keylor
Subject: Contemporary European History 17:3, Special Issue, “A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century,” (August 2008)
Journal Issue: Contemporary European History 17.3 (August 2008)
Date: 23 June 2009

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Our roundtable reviews provide in-depth coverage of key works in foregn relations and diplomatic history. Every roundtable features a panel of distinguished specialists and, often, thoughtful replies from the authors themselves. (more»)

Author: Jason C. Parker
Title: Brother’s Keeper — The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962
Reviewers: Eric D. Duke, James Meriwether, Darlene Rivas, James F. Siekmeier

Authors: Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh
Title: After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
Reviewers: Robert J. Lieber, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Saull

Author: George C. Herring
Title: From Colony to Superpower: U. S. Foreign Relations since 1776
Reviewers: Jerald A. Combs, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Howard Jones, and Douglas Little

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H-Diplo participates in the H-Net Book Reviews program and reviews books on foreign relations history, broadly defined, including monographs, primary source collections, and essay collections. We also publish some specialized reviews such as our roundtable reviews and capsule booknotes. (more»)

Recent BookReviews »

Reviewer: Kimberly Lowe
Title: Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War
Author: Alan Kramer

Reviewer: Inderjeet Parmar
Title: The Legacy of George W. Bush's Foreign Policy: Moving beyond Neoconservatism
Author: Ilan Peleg

Reviewer: John Dumbrell
Title: Carter's Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy
Author: Brian J. Auten

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The Spotlight is an H-Diplo column designed to stimulate a dialogue about the contours of “international history.” Who are “international” historians, and what are they writing? How are the methodologies and lines of inquiry unfolding? As an Internet-based source of commentary and analysis, the IHS aims to use the flexibility of an electronic format to draw attention to a wide range of materials – research programs, journal articles, and even web sites of potential interest to list members. (more»)

IHS 2007, No. 1- What did the League do, exactly?

H-Diplo essays range from state of the field thoughtpieces to extended critiques of selected works to retrospectives on noteworthy historical figures. (more»)

Essayist: Piero Gleijeses
Title: Review Essay of Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin. The Hot ‘Cold War’: The USSR in Southern Africa.
Publication Date: 12 June 2009

Essayist: Sally Marks
Title: Review of Kathleen Burk. Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning.
Publication Date: 8 June 2009

Essayists: Ramesh Thakur
Title: Review of Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum, eds.. The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945. Oxford University Press, 2008. 793 pp. $200.00.
Publication Date: 28 May 2009

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