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Formerly known as article commentaries, these reviews are scholarly critiques of journal articles on foreign relations history, broadly defined. All reviews are commissioned by H-Diplo article review editors, who allow redistribution under the terms of our copyright policy. Article reviews undergo a careful review process and are produced in PDF format, which requires the free Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader).

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The three most recently published Article Reviews

Reviewer: John Garver
Article Author: Donggil Kim
Journal Issue:
Cold War History 10:2 (May 2010)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 270- "The Crucial Issues of the Early Cold War: Stalin and the Chinese Civil War."
Date: 29 July 2010

Reviewer: Yaacov Ro'i
Article Author(s):
Guy Laron
Journal Issue:
Cold War History 10:2 (May 2010)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 269- "The Cold War and the Middle East. Playing with Fire: the Soviet-Syrian-Israeli Triangle, 1965–1967."
Publication Date:
22 July 2010

Reviewer: David Kaiser
Article Author(s):
Jeffrey P. Kimball; Mark Atwood Lawrence
Journal Issue:
Diplomatic History 34:3 (June 2010)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 265h- Part XI of an H-Diplo Article Review Forum on “Special Forum: The Politics of Troop Withdrawal"
Publication Date: 19 July 2010

 


Article Review No. 270 | Published by H-Diplo on 29 July 2010

Donggil Kim. "The Crucial Issues of the Early Cold War: Stalin and the Chinese Civil War." Cold War History 10:2 (May 2010): 185-202. DOI: 10.1080/14682741003619447.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by John Garver, Georgia Institute of Technology [PDF]


Article Review No. 269 | Published by H-Diplo on 22 July 2010

Guy Laron. "The Cold War and the Middle East. Playing with Fire: the Soviet-Syrian-Israeli Triangle, 1965–1967." Cold War History 10:2 (May 2010): 163-184. DOI: 10.1080/14682740902871869.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Yaacov Ro'i, Tel-Aviv University [PDF]


Article Review No. 268 | Published by H-Diplo on 15 July 2010

Artemy Kalinovsky. "Decision Making and the Soviet War in Afghanistan: From Intervention to Withdrawal." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:4 (Fall 2009): 46-73. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.4.46.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by David Gibbs, University of Arizona [PDF]


Article Review No. 267 | Published by H-Diplo on 14 July 2010

Robert E. May. “Culture Wars: The U.S. Art Lobby and Congressional Tariff Legislation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 9: 1 (January 2010)

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kevin M. Murphy, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens [PDF]


Article Review No. 266 | Published by H-Diplo on 18 June 2010

Kuisong Yang and Yafeng Xia. “Vacillating between Revolution and Détente: Mao’s Changing Psyche and Policy toward the United States, 1969-1976.” Diplomatic History 34:2 (April 2010): 395-423.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Michael Sheng, The University of Akron [PDF]


Article Reviews No. 265a, 265b, 265c, 265d, 265e, 262f, 265g, and 265h | Published by H-Diplo on 2, 7, 14, 21, and 28 June 2010, and on 5, 12, and 19 July 2010

H-Diplo Article Reviews on “Special Forum: The Politics of Troop Withdrawal,” Diplomatic History 34:3 (June 2010).


Article Review No. 264 | Published by H-Diplo on 6 May 2010

Giora Goodman. "The British Government and the Challenge of McCarthyism in the Early Cold War." Journal of Cold War Studies 12:1 (Winter 2009-2010): 62-97. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2010.12.1.62.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach [PDF]


Article Review No. 263 | Published by H-Diplo on 21 April 2010

Alan P. Dobson. "From Instrumental to Expressive The Changing Goals of the U.S. Cold War Strategic Embargo." Journal of Cold War Studies 12:1 (Winter 2009-2010) 98-119. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2010.12.1.98.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Frank Cain, University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra, Australia [PDF]


Article Review No. 262 | Published by H-Diplo on 31 March 2010

Frank Costigliola. "After Roosevelt’s Death: Dangerous Emotions, Divisive Discourses, and the Abandoned Alliance." Diplomatic History 34:4 (January 2010): 1-23. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00830.x.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Deborah Welch Larson, University of California, Los Angeles [PDF]


Article Review No. 261 | Published by H-Diplo on 16 March 2010

Andrew L. Yarrow. "Selling a New Vision of America to the World: Changing Messages in Early U.S. Cold War Print Propaganda." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:4 (Fall 2009): 3-45. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.4.3.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California [PDF]


Article Review No. 260 | Published by H-Diplo on 10 March 2010

James Siekmeier. "Latin American Economic Nationalism and United States-Latin American Relations, 1945-1961." The Latin Americanist 52:3 (October 2008): 59-76. DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-203X.2008.00026.x.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by W. Michael Weis, Illinois Wesleyan University [PDF]



Article Review No. 259 | Published by H-Diplo on 5 March 2010

Maartin van Alstein, "The Meaning of Hostile Bipolarization: Interpreting the Origins of the Cold War." Cold War History 9:3 (August 2009): 301-319. DOI: 10.1080/14682740902981395.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Tom Nichols, United States Naval War College [PDF]


Article Review No. 258 | Published by H-Diplo on 25 February 2010

Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. "'A Betrayal of the Cause of Colonial People the World Over': The British Caribbean Against Jagan." The Journal of Caribbean History 43:1 (2009): 115-135.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Cary Fraser, The Pennsylvania State University [PDF]


Article Reviews No. 257a and 257b | Published by H-Diplo on 18 February 2010

Parts I and II of an H-Diplo Article Review Forum on "Special Forum: U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of Détente," Diplomatic History 33:4 (September 2009).

Dan Caldwell. "The Legitimation of the Nixon-Kissinger Grand Design and Grand Strategy." 633-652. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00801.x.

Julian F. Zelizer. "Détente and Domestic Politics." 653-670. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00805.x.

Douglas E. Selvage. "Transforming the Soviet Sphere of Influence? U.S.-Soviet Détente and Eastern Europe, 1969-1976." 671-688. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00804.x.

Stephen R. Twigge. "Operation Hullabaloo: Henry Kissinger, British Diplomacy, and the Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War." 689-702. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00807.x.

Angela Romano. "Détente, Entente, or Linkage? The Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in U.S. Relations with the Soviet Union." 703-722. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00802.x.

Kathleen Parthé. "The Politics of Détente-Era Cultural Texts: 1969-1976." 723-734. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00803.x.

Effie G. H. Pedaliu. "'A Sea of Confusion': The Mediterranean and Détente, 1969-1974." 735-750. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00806.x.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley [PDF] - Article Review No. 257a

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Werner D. Lippert, Indiana University of Pennsylvania [PDF] - Article Review No. 257b


Please note that H-Diplo Article Roundtable Review, Volume XI, Number 14 (2010) provides comprehensive coverage of the August 2009 special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European History, Volume 18, Special Issue Number 3 (August 2009). Revisiting 1989: Causes, Course, and Consequences. It is available on the H-Diplo Roundtables section of this website.


Please note that H-Diplo Article Roundtable Review, Volume XI, Number 12 (2010) provides comprehensive coverage of the October 2009 special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Volume 4, Number 3 (Fall 2009). It is available on the H-Diplo Roundtables section of this website.


Article Review No. 256 | Published by H-Diplo on 28 January 2010

Frédéric Bozo. "'Winners' and ''Losers': France, the United States, and the End of the Cold War." Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009): 927-956.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Christian Wenkel, German Historical Institute, Paris [PDF]


Article Review No. 255 | Published by H-Diplo on 27 January 2010

"Cold War in the Aegean"in Cold War History 9:3 (August 2009)

Barin Kayaoglu. "Strategic imperatives, Democratic rhetoric: The United States and Turkey, 1945-52." Cold War History 9:3 (August 2009): 321-345.

Konstantina Maragkou. "Favouritism in NATO's southeastern flank: The case of the Greek colonels, 1967-74." Cold War History 9:3 (August 2009): 347-366.

Sotiris Rizas. "Managing a conflict among allies: United States policy towards Greece and Turkey in relation to the Aegean dispute, 1974-76." Cold War History 9:3 (August 2009): 367-387.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by James Edward Miller, Georgetown University [PDF]



Article Review No. 254 | Published by H-Diplo on 19 January 2010

R. Gerald Hughes. "Of Revelatory Histories and Hatchet Jobs: Propaganda and Method in Intelligence History." Intelligence and National Security 23:6 (2008): 842-877. DOI: 10.1080/02684520802591459.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mark Stout, Johns Hopkins University [PDF]


Article Reviews No. 253a and 253b | Published by H-Diplo on 14 January 2010

Parts I and II of an H-Diplo Article Review Forum on "Special Forum: Transforming the Cold War: The United States and China, 1969-1980," Diplomatic History 33:4 (September 2009).

Enrico Fardella. "The Sino-American Normalization: A Reassessment." 545-578.

Breck Walker. ""Friends, But Not Allies"-Cyrus Vance and the Normalization of Relations with China." 579-594.

Brian Hilton. ""Maximum Flexibility for Peaceful Change": Jimmy Carter, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People's Republic of China." 595-614.

Mircea Munteanu. "Communication Breakdown? Romania and the Sino-American Rapprochement." 615-631.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mao Lin, University of Georgia [PDF] - Article Review No. 253a

Review for H-Diplo by Min Song, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi [PDF] - Article Review No. 253b


Article Review No. 252 | Published by H-Diplo on 4 January 2010

Paul A. Kramer. "Is the World Our Campus? International Students and U.S. Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century." Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009): 775-806. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00829.x.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [PDF]


Article Review No. 251 | Published by H-Diplo on 21 December 2009

Dean Kotlowski. "Breaching the Paper Walls: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-39." Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009): 865-896. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00816.x.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sonja P. Wentling, Concordia College, Minnesota [PDF]


Article Review No. 250 | Published by H-Diplo on 17 December 2009

Angelo Repousis. "'The Devil's Apostle:' Jonas King's Trial against the Greek Hierarchy in 1852 and the Pressure to Extend U.S. Protection for American Missionaries Overseas." Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009): 807-838.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Niels Eichhorn, University of Arkansas [PDF]


Article Review No. 249 | Published by H-Diplo on 3 December 2009

Julia F. Irwin. "Nation Building and Rebuilding: The American Red Cross in Italy during the Great War." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8.3 (July 2009): 407-439.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University [PDF]


Article Review No. 248 | Published by H-Diplo on 19 November 2009

Christopher McKnight Nichols. "Rethinking Randolph Bourne's Trans-National America: How World War I Created an Isolationist Antiwar Pluralism." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8.2 (April 2009), 217-57.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Ross A. Kennedy, Illinois State University [PDF]


Article Review No. 247 | Published by H-Diplo on 18 November 2009

Caitlin A. Fitz. "'A Stalwart Motor of Revolutions': An American Merchant in Pernambuco, 1817-1825." The Americas 65:1 (July 2008): 35-62. DOI: 10.1353/tam.0.0018.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by J.M. Opal, McGill University [PDF]


Article Review No. 246 | Published by H-Diplo on 26 October 2009

Ryan M. Irwin."A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963." Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009): 897-926. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00817.x.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Thomas J. Noer, Carthage College [PDF]


Article Review No. 245 (Revision B) | Published by H-Diplo on 22 October 2009

Hua-yu Li. "Reactions of Chinese Citizens to the Death of Stalin, International Communist Party Reports." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring 2009): 70-88. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.2.70.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Hongshan Li, Kent State University [PDF]


Article Review No. 244 | Published by H-Diplo on 9 October 2009

Alison Fleig Frank. "The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of Multinational Corporation." American Historical Review 114:1 (February 2009): 16-41.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont [PDF]


Article Review No. 243 | Published by H-Diplo on 7 October 2009

Lorenz M. Lüthi. "Beyond Betrayal: Beijing, Moscow, and the Paris Negotiations, 1971-1973." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:1 (Winter 2009): 57-107. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.1.57.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Li Wang and Zhao Xuegong, Nankai University [PDF]


Article Review No. 242 | Published by H-Diplo on 24 September 2009

Irving W. Levinson. "A New Paradigm for an Old Conflict: The Mexico-United States War." The Journal of Military History 73 (April 2009): 393-416. DOI: 10.1353/jmh.0.0256.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Timothy J. Henderson, Auburn University Montgomery [PDF]


Article Review No. 241 | Published by H-Diplo on 16 September 2009

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou. "Images of the Adversary: NATO Assessments of the Soviet Union, 1953-1964." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring 2009): 89-116.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Linda Risso, University of Reading [PDF]


Article Review No. 240 | Published by H-Diplo on 15 September 2009

Mao Lin. "China and the Escalation of the Vietnam War: The First Years of the Johnson Administration." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring, 2009): 35-69.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by James Carter, Drew University [PDF]


Article Review No. 239 | Published by H-Diplo on 8 September 2009

Andy DeRoche. "Dreams and Disappointments: Kenneth Kaunda and the United States, 1960-64." Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 9:4 (October 2008), 369-394
Andy DeRoche. "Non-alignment on the Racial Frontier: Zambia and the USA, 1964-68." Cold War History 7:2 (May 2007), 227-250.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jim Meriwether, California State University, Channel Islands [PDF]



Pre-September 2009 H-Diplo Article Reviews are listed below by journal:

American Historical Review published by the American Historical Association

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Business History Review published by Harvard Business School

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Cold War History produced by the LSE Cold War Studies Centre and published by Routledge

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Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Bulletin and Working Papers published by the Cold War International History Project

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Contemporary European History

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Diplomacy and Statecraft published by Routledge

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Diplomatic History the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

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History Compass published by Blackwell Publishing

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Intelligence and National Security published by Routledge


Journal of Cold War Studies produced by the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies and published by The MIT Press

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Journal of the Early Republic published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

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Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era published by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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Journal of the Historical Society the journal of The Historical Society

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Journal of Japanese Studies published by the Society for Japanese Studies and housed at the University of Washington

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Journal of Military History published by the Society for Military History

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Journal of South African Studies published by Routledge, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Journal of Vietnamese Studies published by the University of California Press

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New England Journal of History

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Pacific Historical Review

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Review of International Studies published for the British International Studies Association by Cambridge University Press

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Technology and Culture published by The Johns Hopkins University Press

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Twentieth Century British History published by Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press

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Women's Studies published by Routledge

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Suggested citation form: [Review Author]. H-Diplo review of [article title]. [Review URL/URI]. Published by H-Diplo on [publication date].

Sample citation : Erik Esselstrom. H-Diplo review of Noriko Kawamura, "Emperor Hirohito and Japan's Decision to Go to War with the United States: Reexamined," Diplomatic History 31:1 (January 2007). http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/Esselstrom-Kawamura.pdf. Published by H-Diplo on 14 January 2007.

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