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NB: H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtables on international security studies are available in the H-Diplo/ISSF section of this website.

H-Diplo roundtables are panel scholarly reviews on new and notable works in the field of foreign relations and international history, broadly defined. Roundtables complement the H-Diplo book review program by offering more in-depth assessments of selected key works in H-Diplo's purview. All roundtables are commissioned by H-Diplo Roundtable Editors, who allow redistribution under the terms of our copyright policy.

Prospective Reviewers-Please (Diane Labrosse and Thomas Maddux) including the following details in your message- (1) Full Name; (2) E-mail Address; (3) Position and Affiliation (for example, Lorem Ipsum University); (4) Area(s) of Expertise and Interest; (5) Postal Address; and (6) Any Other Relevant Details.

H-Diplo Article Reviews Style Sheet (September 2009 version) for reviewers.

Most recently published Roundtables

Author: Howard Jones
Title:
Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Reviewers:
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Robert E. May, Jay Sexton, Chris Tudda

Author: David Ekbladh
Title: The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Reviewers: Nils Gilman, Brad Simpson, Daniel Speich, Corinna R. Unger

Author: Bruce Cumings
Title: Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
Reviewers: Jerald A. Combs, Walter Hixson, Emily S. Rosenberg, Anders Stephanson


 

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Post-August 2009 Series Roundtables are listed below in reverse-chronological order:

Volume XI, No. 36 (2010)

Howard Jones. Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations. 432 pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3349-0 (cloth, $30.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 26 July 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Robert E. May, Jay Sexton, Chris Tudda. Author's Response by Howard Jones.

Volume XI, No. 35 (2010)

David Ekbladh. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. 404 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-13330-0 (cloth, $35.00); 978-0-691-13330-0 (£24.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 20 July 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Nils Gilman, Brad Simpson, Daniel Speich, Corinna R. Unger. Author's Response by David Ekbladh.

Volume XI, No. 34 (2010)

Bruce Cumings. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 672 pp. ISBN: 9780300111880 (cloth, $38.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 16 July 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Akira Iriye. Reviewers: Jerald A. Combs, Walter Hixson, Emily S. Rosenberg, Anders Stephanson.

Volume XI, No. 33 (2010)

Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall. America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. 448 pp. ISBN: 9780674035539 (paperback, $26.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 13 July 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Michael H. Hunt, Anders Stephanson, Odd Arne Westad. Response by Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall.

Volume XI, No. 32 (2010)

Robert Jervis. Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4785-3 ($27.95, cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 9 July 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Richard K. Betts. Reviewers: Eliot Cohen, Glenn Hastedt, Jeffrey T. Richelson, Wesley Wark.

Volume XI, No. 31 (2010)

Mary L. Dudziak. Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780195329018 (hardback, $29.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 30 June 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Christopher Endy. Reviewers: Daniel Branch, Cary Fraser, George White, Jr.

Volume XI, No. 30 (2010)

"Asian Cold War Symposium," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40 (October 2009): 441-565.

Published by H-Diplo on 25 June 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Balázs Szalontai. Reviewers: Kenton Clymer, Anne L. Foster, Martin Grossheim, Robert J. McMahon.

Volume XI, No. 29 (2010)

Sarah-Jane Corke. U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare and the CIA, 1945-53. 256 pp. London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-415-42077-8 (hardback, $160.00); 978-0-203-01630-5 (eBook, £80.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 10 June 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Robert Jervis. Reviewers: Betty A. Dessants, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Scott Lucas, Gregory Mitrovich. Response by Sarah-Jane Corke.

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Volume XI, No. 28 (2010)

Michael D. Gordin. Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (September 2009). 416 pages, 7 Black-and-White Illustrations in Text/Notes/Selected Sources/Index. ISBN: 978-0-374-25682-1 (Hardcover, $28.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 3 June 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Dustin Walcher and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Dustin Walcher. Reviewers: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Sean L. Malloy, Sergey Radchenko, Vladislav Martin Zubok. Response by Michael D. Gordin.

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Volume XI, No. 27 (2010)

Greg Grandin. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. New York: Metropolitan Books, June 2009. 432 pp, 54 b&w photo; 1 map. ISBN: 978-0-8050-8236-4 (hardcover, $27.50); 978-0-312-42962-1 (paperback, $16); 978-1-4299-3801-3 (eBook, $9.99).

Published by H-Diplo on 25 May 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Dustin Walcher and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Dustin Walcher. Reviewers: Emily S. Rosenberg, Bevan Sewell, Steven Topik, Barbara Weinstein. Response by Greg Grandin.

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Volume XI, No. 26 (2010)

Dennis Merrill. Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. vi, 327 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN: 978-0-8078-3288-2 ($65.00, cloth); Paper, $22.50, 978-0-8078-5904-9 ($22.50, paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 18 May 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Christopher Endy. Reviewers: Laura A. Belmonte, Dina Berger, Kristin Hoganson, Louis Perez. Response by Dennis Merrill.

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Volume XI, No. 25 (2010)

"Special Forum: Reconsidering the Foreign Policy of the First Bush Administration, Twenty Years On." Diplomatic History 34:1 (January 2010): 25-175.

Published by H-Diplo on 11 May 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by James Goldgeier. Reviewers: Matthew Dallek, J. Simon Rofe, Sarah B. Snyder. Response by Jeffrey A. Engel.

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Volume XI, No. 24 (2010)

Thomas A. Schwartz and Matthias Schulz, eds. The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Publications of the German Historical Institute. ISBN: 978-0521899994 (hardcover, $85.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 4 May 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Wilfried Loth. Reviewers: Kiran Klaus Patel, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Melissa P. Yeager. Responses by Matthias Schulz and byhomas A. Schwartz.

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Volume XI, No. 23 (2010)

Frédéric Bozo. Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84545-427-2 ($110.00, hardback); 978-1-84545-787-7 ($45.00, paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 26 April 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Marc Trachtenberg. Reviewers: Will Gray, Robert Hutchings, Jacques Lévesque, Philip Zelikow. Author's Response by Frédéric Bozo.

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Volume XI, No. 22 (2010)

Scott Laderman. Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4396-7 ($79.95, cloth); 978-0-8223-4414-8 ($22.95, paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 19 April 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Mark Philip Bradley, Seth Jacobs, Christina Klein, Viet Thanh Nguyen. Author's Responses by Scott Laderman.

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Volume XI, No. 21 (2010)

Kevin A. Spooner. Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7748-1636-6 (hardcover, $85.00); 978-0-7748-1637-3 (paperback, $32.95).

David Webster. Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7748-1683-0 (hardcover, $85.00); 978-0-7748-1684-7 (paperback, $32.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 12 April 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Daniel Byrne, Robin S. Gendron, Francine McKenzie, and John Meehan. Author's Responses by Kevin A. Spooner and by David Webster.

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Volume XI, No. 20 (2010)

Jeffrey F. Taffet. Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America. New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-415-97771-5 ($28.95, paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 6 April 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Max Paul Friedman, Michel Gobat, Andrew J. Kirkendall, David M. K. Sheinin, W. Michael Weis. Author's Response by Jeffrey F. Taffet.

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Volume XI, No. 19 (2010)

Stein Tønnesson. Vietnam 1946: How the War Began. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780520256026 ($39.95, hardcover).

Published by H-Diplo on 2 April 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Eric T. Jennings, David G. Marr, Martin Thomas, Tuong Vu. Author's Response by Stein Tønnesson.

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Volume XI, No. 18 (2010)

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. In the Lion’s Den: A Novel of the Civil War. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, 2009. ISBN: 978-1440157981 (paperback, $19.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 23 March 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Niels Eichhorn, Howard Jones, Nicole M. Phelps, William Earl Weeks. Author's Response by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman.

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Volume XI, No. 17 (2010)

Bradley Lynn Coleman. Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. 303 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87338-926-6 ($45.95, cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 4 March 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Kyle Longley, Arizona State University. Reviewers: Robert Karl, Robert Robinson, James F. Siekmeier. Author's Response by Bradley Lynn Coleman.

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Volume XI, No. 16 (2010)

Mary Elise Sarotte. 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-691-14306-4 (cloth, $29.95, £20.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 24 February 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Reviewers: Meena Bose, Hope M. Harrison, James Sheehan, William Wohlforth. Author's Response by Mary Elise Sarotte.

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Volume XI, No. 15 (2010)

Michael K. Carroll. Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0774815819 (hardcover, $85.00); 978-0774815826 (paperback, $29.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 10 February 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduced by Kathleen Rasmussen . Reviewers: Duane Bratt, Adam Chapnick, Daryl Copeland, Julie Gilmour, Alan James. Author's Response by Michael K. Carroll.

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Volume XI, No. 14 (2010)

Journal of Contemporary European History, Volume 18, Special Issue Number 3 (August 2009). Revisiting 1989: Causes, Course, and Consequences.

Charles S. Maier. "What Have We Learned since 1989?" 253-269. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005037

Vladimir Tismaneanu. " The Revolutions of 1989: Causes, Meanings, Consequences." 271-288. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005049

Jeffrey Kopstein. "1989 as a Lens for Communist Past and Post-communist Future. 289-302. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005050

Marci Shore. "(The End of) Communism as a Generational History: Some Thoughts on Czechoslovakia and Poland." 303-329. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005062

Mark R Beissinger. "Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism." 331-347. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005074

Silvio Pons. "Western Communists, Mikhail Gorbachev and the 1989 Revolutions." 349-362. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005086

Andrew A. Michta. "NATO Enlargement post-1989: Successful Adaptation or Decline?" 363-376. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777309005098

Published by H-Diplo on 5 February 2010

  • Article Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Guest Edited by Amir Weiner and John Connelly. Reviewers: Günter Bischof, Christian Hacke, Dónal O'Sullivan, Georg Schild. Concluding thoughts by Konrad Jarausch.

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Volume XI, No. 13 (2010)

Keith Neilson. Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-521-85713-0 (hardback, $101). Also printed in paperback and eBook formats.

Published by H-Diplo on 2 February 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduced by Sally Marks. Reviewers: Sydney Aster, Robert Hanks, Alastair Kocho-Williams, Bruce Strang. Author's Response by Keith Neilson.

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Volume XI, No. 12 (2010)

Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Volume 4, Number 3 (Fall 2009)

Edward Miller and Tuong Vu, "The Vietnam War as a Vietnamese War: Agency and Society in the Study of the Second Indochina War" (Introductory Essay). 1-16. DOI: 10.1525/vs.2009.4.3.1.

François Guillemot, "Death and Suffering at First Hand: Youth Shock Brigades during the Vietnam War, 1950-1975." 17-60. DOI: 10.1525/vs.2009.4.3.17.

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, "Trends in Military Service in Northern Vietnam, 1950-1995: A Socio-Demographic Approach." DOI: 10.1525/vs.2009.4.3.61.

Shawn McHale, "Understanding the Fanatic Mind? The Viet Minh and Race Hatred in the First Indochina War, 1945-1954." DOI: 10.1525/vs.2009.4.3.98.

David Biggs, "Americans in An Giang: Nation Building as a Place-Centered Discourse in Vietnamese History." DOI: 10.1525/vs.2009.4.3.139.

Peter Hansen, "Bac Ði Cú: Catholic Refugees From the North of Vietnam, and their Role in the Southern Republic, 1954-59." DOI: 10.1525/vs.2009.4.3.173.

Published by H-Diplo on 29 January 2010

  • Article Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Diane Labrosse. Organized by Jessica Chapman. Introduced by Ronald Spector. Reviewers: Sophie Quinn-Judge, James McAllister, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Nu-Anh Tran. Editor's Response by Edward Miller and Tuong Vu. Author's Responses by David Biggs, François Guillemot, and by Shawn McHale.

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Volume XI, No. 11 (2010)

Michael Lumbers. Piercing the Bamboo Curtain: Tentative Bridge-Building to China during the Johnson years. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7190-7778-4. x + 286 pp.

Published by H-Diplo on 21 January 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Diane Labrosse. Organized and Introduced by Yafeng Xia. Reviewers: Mitchell Lerner, Andrew Preston, Priscilla Roberts, Qiang Zhai. Author's Response by Michael Lumbers.

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Volume XI, No. 10 (2010)

Ross A. Kennedy. The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87338-971-6 ($45.00, cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 7 January 2010

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Lloyd E. Ambrosius, Christopher Ball, Sally Marks, Elizabeth McKillen. Author's Response by Ross A. Kennedy.

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Volume XI, No. 9 (2009)

John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev. Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. Yale University Press, 2009. 704 pp. ISBN: 978-0300123906 (cloth, $35.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 14 December 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: John Ehrman, Benjamin B. Fischer, Richard Gid Powers, Ellen Schrecker

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Volume XI, No. 8 (2009)

Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0300110289 (cloth, $27.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 7 December 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: David Kaiser, Sean L. Malloy, Geoff Roberts

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Volume XI, No. 7 (2009)

John Prados. Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, April 2009. Modern War Studies. 704 pp, 48 photographs. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1634-3 (cloth, $34.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 30 November 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Lloyd Gardner. Reviewers: David L. Anderson, Robert Brigham, John T. Kuehn, Priscilla Roberts, Qiang Zhai

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Volume XI, No. 6 (2009)

Nicholas J. Cull. The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 0521819970 (hardback, $175.00). [ISBN: 0521142830 (November 2009), (paperback, $36.99)]. 580 pp.

Published by H-Diplo on 13 November 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Christopher Endy. Reviewers: Laura A. Belmonte, Susan L. Carruthers, Richard Fried, Michael L. Krenn, Kenneth Osgood

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Volume XI, No. 5 (2009)

James Mann. The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War. Viking Press, 2009. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0670020546 (hardcover, $27.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 6 November 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Archie Brown, Beth A. Fischer, Kyle Longley, Joseph M. Siracusa

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Volume XI, No. 4 (2009)

Patrick Tyler. A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East-from the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008. 640 pp (hardcover, $30.00). ISBN: 978-0-374-29289-8.

Published by H-Diplo on 15 October 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Matthew Jacobs, Arlene Lazarowitz, Douglas Little, Benny Miller

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Volume XI, No. 3 (2009)

Louis A. Perez Jr. Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3216-5 ($34.95, cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 2 October 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Dennis Merrill, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Thomas Schoonover, Wayne S. Smith

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Volume XI, No. 2 (2009)

J.C.A. Stagg. Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 320 pp. (cloth; $50.00). ISBN: 978-0300139051.

Published by H-Diplo on 10 September 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Andrew Cayton, James G. Cusick, James E. Lewis, Jr., William E. Weeks.

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Volume XI, No. 1 (2009)

"The Cold War and Agriculture," Agricultural History, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Winter 2009)

Published by H-Diplo on 4 September 2009 (revised on 10 September 2009)

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Alan Dobson, Roger Horowitz, Kathleen Rasmussen, David Webster.

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Back issues are listed below in chronological order.

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.

  • Individual Roundtable pieces in PDF format [PDF]:

(*) 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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux (California State University, Northridge). Reviewers: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (University of California, Santa Barbara), Kevin O'Connor (Gonzaga University), and Geoffrey Roberts (University College Cork). Author's Response by Vladislav Zubok (Temple University).

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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

  • Article Review Roundtable [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux (California State University, Northridge). Reviewers: Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma), Xiaoyuan Liu (Iowa State University), Lorenz M. Lüthi (McGill University).

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux (California State University, Northridge). Reviewers: Michael Allen (North Carolina State University), Robert Brigham (Vassar College), Matthew Masur (St. Anselm College), James McAllister (Williams College).

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux (California State University, Northridge). Reviewers: Robert Dean (Eastern Washington University), Kurk Dorsey (University of New Hampshire), Jeffrey A. Engel (Texas A&M University), Bruce Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania). Author's Response by Walter Hixson (University of Akron).

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Mark Gilderhus, Alonzo L. Hamby, T. Christopher Jespersen, J. Simon Rofe.

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Joshua Rovner.
    Reviewers: Erik J. Dahl, Glenn Hastedt, Richard Russell.

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Christopher Endy, Mary Renda, Ian Tyrrell, Mari Yoshihara.

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Sung-Yoon Lee, Sang-Yoon Ma, James I. Matray, Michael Robinson, Brad Simpson

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Curt Cardwell, Campbell Craig Lloyd Gardner, Mary Sarotte

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: David Anderson, Anne Foster, T. Christopher Jespersen
    Author's Response by Kenton Clymer

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: David G. Haglund, Wolfgang Krieger, Francine McKenzie, Andrew Preston
    Author's Response by Robert Bothwell

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Ragna Boden, David Ekbladh, Nils Gilman, Laura Lisbeth Iandola
    Author's Response by Bradley R. Simpson

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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

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Jeff Bloodworth, Beth Fischer, Ralph B. Levering, Wilson D. Miscamble
    Author's Response from Norman A. Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa

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Volume IX, No. 23 (2008)

Joan Hoff. A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-87905-7 (hardback, $80.00); 978-0-521-71404-4 (paperback, $24.99); 978-0-511- 36793-9 (Adobe eBook Reader, $20.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 24 November 2008

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Carolyn Eisenberg, Catherine Forslund, Erika Kuhlman, Tom Nichols
    Author's Response from Joan Hoff

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Volume IX, No. 24 (2008)

Andrew Bacevich. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. (New York: Metropolitan Books, August 2008). 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8050-8815-1 ($24.00; hardcover).

Published by H-Diplo on 8 December 2008

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Jerald Combs, Walter Hixson, Michael Hunt, Matthew F. Jacobs
    Author's Response by Andrew Bacevich

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Volume IX, No. 25 (2008)

Lorenz M. Lüthi. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 375 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-12934-1

Published by H-Diplo on 15 December 2008

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Yafeng Xia.
    Reviewers: Vojtech Mastny, Douglas Selvage, Michael Sheng, Sergey Radchenko, Dong Wang, and Qiang Zhai
    Author's Response by Lorenz M. Lüthi

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Volume IX, No. 26 (2008)

Hal Brands. From Berlin to Baghdad: America’s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World . Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 424 pp. $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2462-9 (cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 17 December 2008

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Meena Bose, Clea Lutz Bunch, John Dumbrell, James Goode, Scott Lucas
    Author's Response by Hal Brands

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Volume X, No. 1 (2009)

Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier. America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror. New York: Public Affairs, 2008. ISBN: 9781586484965 (hardcover).

Published by H-Diplo on 7 January 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Matthew Dallek, David Greenberg, Nicholas Guyatt, Robert Jervis, Elizabeth Spalding
    Author's Response by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier

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Volume X, No. 2 (2009)

Thomas M. Nichols. Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4066-5 (cloth, $39.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 27 January 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Stephen A. Bourque, Jeffrey D. McCausland, Jonathan Reed Winkler
    Author's Response by Thomas Nichols

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Volume X, No. 3 (2009)

Paul A. Kramer. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, April 2006. ISBN: 978-0-8078-2985-1 (cloth, $69.95); 978-0-8078-5653-6 (paper; $26.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 12 February 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Patricio Abinales, Kenton Clymer, Anne Foster, Emily S. Rosenberg

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Volume X, No. 4 (2009)

Matt Schumann and Karl Schweizer. The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History. New York: Routledge, 2008. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-39418-5 ($150; hardback).

Published by H-Diplo on 17 February 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Fred Anderson, Reed Browning, Todd Estes, Linda Frey, Marsha Frey, Leonard
    Sadosky

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Volume X, No. 5 (2009)

Michael Szonyi. Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 328 pp. ISBN: 9780521726405 (Paperback, $29.99).

Published by H-Diplo on 24 February 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Gordon H. Chang, Dai Chaowu, Xiaobing Li, Rana Mitter

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Volume X, No. 6 (2009)

John Patrick Diggins. Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-393-06022-5 (hardcover); 978-0-393-33092-2 (paperback).

Published by H-Diplo on 3 March 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Don Critchlow, John Ehrman, John Sloan

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Volume X, No. 7 (2009)

Erez Manela. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0195176155.

Published by H-Diplo on 10 March 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Cemil Aydin, Matthew J. Connelly, David S. Patterson, Odd Arne Westad

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Volume X, No. 8 (2009)

Steven Casey. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 488 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-530692-7 ($55; hardback).

Published by H-Diplo on 17 March 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Thomas Devine, Sung-Yoon Lee, James Matray, Wilson D. Miscamble

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Volume X, No. 9 (2009)

Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro, eds. To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine. New York: Oxford University Press, June 2008. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0195369410 (paperback, $17.95); 978-0195330984 (hardcover, $99.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 27 March 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: Robert Art, Michael Cox, Henry R. Nau, William O. Walker III

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Volume X, No. 10 (2009)

Lloyd C. Gardner. The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present. New York: The New Press, Fall 2008. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59558-075-7 ($27.95; hardcover).

Published by H-Diplo on 15 April 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux.
    Reviewers: James Goldgeier, Joan Hoff, Nancy Mitchell

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Volume X, No. 11 (2009)

Ussama Makdisi. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4621-4 ($35; cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 24-25 April 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux. Introduction by Christopher Endy.
    Reviewers: Nathan J. Citino, Mark LeVine, Michelle Mart, Melani McAlister

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Volume X, No. 12 (2009)

Marc Trachtenberg. "The United States and Eastern Europe in 1945: A Reassessment." Journal of Cold War Studies 10:4 (Fall 2008): 94-132. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2008.10.4.94.

Published by H-Diplo on 7 May 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux. Introduction by Christopher Endy.
    Reviewers: Fraser J. Harbutt, James McAllister, Eduard Mark, Norman M. Naimark

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Volume X, No. 13 (2009)

Part I of the Proceedings of the First Williams/H-Diplo Conference on New Scholarship in American Foreign Relations, 17-18 April 2009, Williams College

H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth. World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy. Princeton University Press, 2008.

Published by H-Diplo on 18 May 2009

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Volume X, No. 14 (2009)

Part II of the Proceedings of the First Williams/H-Diplo Conference on New Scholarship in American Foreign Relations, 17-18 April 2009, Williams College

H-Diplo Roundtable Review of James M. Carter. Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 276 pp. ISBN: 9780521716901 (paperback; $22.99); 9780521888653 (hardback; $75.00); 9780511402241 (Adobe eBook Reader; $18.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 19 May 2009

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Volume X, No. 15 (2009)

Part III of the Proceedings of the First Williams/H-Diplo Conference on New Scholarship in American Foreign Relations, 17-18 April 2009, Williams College

H-Diplo Roundtable Review of David Edelstein. Occupational Hazards: Success & Failure in Military Occupation. Cornell University Press, 2008. 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4615-3 ($35.00, cloth).


Published by H-Diplo on 21 May 2009

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Volume X, No. 16 (2009)

Part IV of the Proceedings of the First Williams/H-Diplo Conference on New Scholarship in American Foreign Relations, 17-18 April 2009, Williams College

H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Jonathan Reed Winkler. Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I. Harvard University Press, 2008. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-02839-5 ($55, hardcover).

Published by H-Diplo on 22 May 2009

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Volume X, No. 17 (2009)

Nigel Ashton. King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 464pp. ISBN: 978-0300091670 ($35, cloth).

Published by H-Diplo on 29 May 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Fraser J. Harbutt, James McAllister, Eduard Mark, Norman M. Naimark. Author's Response by Nigel Ashton.

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Volume X, No. 18 (2009)

Jeffrey A. Engel, ed. The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. 544 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13006-4.

Published by H-Diplo on 4 June 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Yafeng Xia and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Yafeng Xia. Reviewers: Adam Cathcart, Ting Ni, Priscilla Roberts, Guoqiang Zheng. Author's Response by Jeffrey A. Engel.

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Volume X, No. 19 (2009)

George C. Herring. From Colony to Superpower: U. S. Foreign Relations since 1776. Oxford University Press: New York, 2008. 1,056 pp. ISBN: 978-0195078220 (hardback, $35.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 19 June 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Jerald A. Combs, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Howard Jones, and Douglas Little. Author's Response by George C. Herring.

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Volume X, No. 20 (2009)

Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh. After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780521880046 (hardback; $28.00).

Published by H-Diplo on 2 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Robert J. Lieber, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Saull. Author's Response by Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh

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Volume X, No. 21 (2009)

Jason C. Parker. Brother’s Keeper — The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Published by H-Diplo on 3 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Eric D. Duke, James Meriwether, Darlene Rivas, James F. Siekmeier

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Volume X, No. 22 (2009)

Chaozhu Ji. The Man on Mao’s Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life inside China’s Foreign Ministry. New York: Random House, 2008. 336p. ISBN 9781400065844 (alk. paper). $28.00.

Published by H-Diplo on 8 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Yafeng Xia and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Yafeng Xia. Reviewers: James Z. Gao, Charles W. Hayford, Lorenz M. Lüthi, Raymond P. Ojserkis, Priscilla Roberts, Patrick Fuliang Shan, Qiang Zhai.

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Volume X, No. 23 (2009)

Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser, eds. In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. 456 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4102-4 (cloth, $99.95); 978-0-8223-4121-5 (paperback, $26.95).

Published by H-Diplo on 15 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Max Paul Friedman, Greg Grandin, William M. LeoGrande, Alan McPherson, Richard Saull. Author's Response by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser

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Volume X, No. 24 (2009)

Journal of Cold War Studies 11.3 (Summer 2009)
Special Issue: Soviet Espoinage in the United States during the Stalin Era
(with articles by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr; Eduard Mark; Gregg Herken; Steven T. Usdin; Max Holland; and John F. Fox, Jr.)

Published by H-Diplo on 17 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Bruce Craig, Ronald Radosh, Katherine A.S. Sibley, G. Edward White. Author's Response by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr

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Volume X, No. 25 (2009)


David Hendrickson. Union, Nation, Empire: The American Debate over International Relations, 1789-1941. Lawrence, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Published by H-Diplo on 22 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: David Armitage, James E. Lewis Jr., Reginald C. Stuart, Chris Tudda, William E. Weeks

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Volume X, No. 26 (2009)

"Detente and its Legacy": Special issue of Cold War History 8:4 (November 2008) guest edited by Noam Kochavi

Published by H-Diplo on 24 July 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Keith Nelson, William B. Quandt, Andreas Wenger.

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Volume X, No. 27 (2009)

G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Tony Smith. The Crisis in American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.

Published by H-Diplo on 31 July 2009, reissued on 6 August 2009

  • Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: John M. Cooper, Michael C. Desch, Walter Hixson, Erez Manela, Robert W. Tucker

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