H-Diplo Article Reviews: Diplomatic History 32 (2008)

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Diplomatic History is the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). It is currently published by Blackwell Press for SHAFR.

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Issue 1 (January 2008)

Richard H. Immerman. “Intelligence and Strategy: Historicizing Psychology, Policy, and Politics.” Diplomatic History 32.1 (January 2008): 1-23. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2007.00675.x.

Reviewed by Christopher L. Ball, H-Diplo Book Review Editor [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 17 January 2009

Issue 2 (April 2008)

C.J. Jenner. “Turning the Hinge of Fate: “Good Source” and the UK-U.S. Intelligence Alliance, 1940-1942.” Diplomatic History 32:2 (April 2008): 165-205. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00688.x.

Reviewed by John Ferris, University of Calgary [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 4 November 2008

Issue 3 (June 2008)

Francis M. Bator. "No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection." Diplomatic History 32.3 (June 2008): 309-340. With comments by Evan Thomas (341-342), Randall B. Woods (343-345), Marilyn B. Young (347-350), Mark Moyar (351-354), Fredrik Logevall (355-359), Larry Berman (361-362). Author's Response by Francis M. Bator (363-370).

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00691_1.x (Bator article); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00692.x (Thomas); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00693.x (Woods); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00694.x (Young); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00695.x (Moyar); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00696.x (Logevall); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00697.x (Berman); 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00691_2.x (Bator reply).

Reviewed by James McAllister, Williams College [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 25 July 2008

Issue 4 (September 2008)

Max Paul Friedman. "Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations" (Bernath Lecture). Diplomatic History 32:4 (September 2008).
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00708.x

Reviewed by Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 15 September 2008

Kurk Dorsey and Mark Lytle, eds. "New Directions in Diplomatic and Environmental History." Diplomatic History 32:4 (September 2008). DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00710.x.

Forum Review by Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Michigan State University and Frank Zelko, University of Vermont [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 17 October 2008

Issue 5 (November 2008)

Bevan Sewell. "A Perfect (Free-Market) World? Economics, the Eisenhower Administration, and the Soviet Economic Offensive in Latin America". Diplomatic History 32:5 (November 2008): 841-868. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00732.x.

Reviewed by James F. Siekmeier, West Virginia University [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 7 November 2008

Sulmaan Wasif Khan. “The Aesthetic of Analysis: National Intelligence Estimates and Other American Appraisals of the Cold War Triangular Relationship”. Diplomatic History: 32:5 (November 2008).

Reviewed by Richard K. Betts, Columbia University [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 28 November 2008

Melissa Jane Taylor. “Diplomats in Turmoil: Creating a Middle Ground in Post-Anschluss Austria”. Diplomatic History 32:5 (November 2008): 811-39.

Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina Emeritus [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 3 December 2008

S.R. Joey Long. “Winning Hearts and Minds: U.S. Psychological Operations in Singapore, 1955-1961.” Diplomatic History 32:5 (November 2008): 899-930. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00734.x.

Reviewed by Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 19 December 2008

Chris Tudda. “‘A Messiah that Will Never Come’: A New Look at Saratoga, Independence, and Revolutionary War Diplomacy.” Diplomatic History 32:5 (November 2008): 779-810. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00730.x.

Reviewed by Matt J. Schumann, Eastern Michigan University
Reviewed byWilliam E.Weeks, University of California, San Diego [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 15 January 2009

Margaret Power. “The Engendering of Anticommunism and Fear in Chile’s 1964 Presidential Election.” Diplomatic History 32:5 (November 2008): 931-953. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00735.x.

Reviewed by Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 5 February 2009

“Forum: Biography after the Cultural Turn,” Diplomatic History 32:5 (November 2008).

Frank Costigliola. “Broken Circle: The Isolation of Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II.” DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00725.x.
Jeremi Suri. “Henry Kissinger, the American Dream, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience in the Cold War.” DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00726.x.
Randall B. Woods. “Conflicted Hegemon: LBJ and the Dominican Republic.” DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00727.x.

Commentary
Petra Goedde. “‘Thick Description’: An Assessment of FDR, LBJ, and Henry Kissinger.” DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00728.x.
Andrew Rotter. “Foreign Relations Biography and the Cultural Turn.” DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00729.x.

Reviewed by Robert Dean, Eastern Washington University [PDF]
Published by H-Diplo on 9 February 2009

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