H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-39: Hochman, Ferrante, Kitrosser, Krige, Piotrowski, and Roshwald on Connelly's 'The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets.'

' When so much of the state’s business takes place behind closed doors, all of

H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-38: Steele, Humayun, Orr, Purdeková on Lerner's 'From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of
International Politics.'

'Lerner’s ambitious book brilliantly demonstrates the impact of collective trauma and mass violence upon

H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 97: Matray on Ramon Pacheco Pardo's 'South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny.'

'Until classified documents become available, South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny, will be the authoritative source on South Korea’s role in

H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 95: Hymans on Potter, Bidgood, Meyer and Notte's 'Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs'

'International security studies literature contains many thorough discussions of terrorists’ potential to acquire

H-Diplo|RJISSF Commentary II-4: Sean Case's 'Kissinger and the Angel of Applied History”

'These obituaries and memorials collectively omit one of Kissinger’s most enduring policy legacies: his self-
perception as a historian'

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-37: Spear, 'The Business of Armaments: Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855–1955”

“For anyone interested in gaining greater understanding about the important but often hidden politics of arms industry-state relations in

H-Diplo| RJISSF Article Review 168: Jonathan R. Hunt on Ito and Maria Rentetzi, “The Co-Production of Nuclear Science and Diplomacy: Towards a Transnational Understanding of Nuclear Things.”

“How do science and diplomacy make sense to each other? How does each seek to shape the other, how

H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 96: Dong Wang on @Raffpantucci and the late Petersen, 'Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire”
'This carefully written book is impressive...It invites us to critically imagine what a world led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entails.”

H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 94: William L. d'Ambruoso on Mandelbaum, 'The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy'
'A book that gives a fair hearing to both sides of a long-running debate between realists and idealists in studies of international affairs.'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-31: Larsen, 'Plotting for Peace'
'Offers a major revision of diplomacy during the Great War... Integrates economic, political, diplomatic, and the previously under-explored secret side of this history: that of intelligence.'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Conference Report: “The Failure of the Post-Cold War Global Order?”
'Has the post-Cold War order in fact failed? And if so, what were the main reasons for its failure and could it have been avoided? Which historical alternatives existed?'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 93: Daniels on Hugo Meijer, 'Awakening to China’s Rise'
'While the US and the [PRC] have embarked on a course of open confrontation... the European Union seems to be caught uncomfortably in the middle.'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable III-3: Ukraine and Nuclear Weapons
'Thankfully, the war in Ukraine has to this point reinforced old lessons about nuclear weapons rather than triggering new ones. World leaders should work to keep it this way.'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-30: Flavia Gasbarri, 'US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa'
'When and how did the Cold War end in Africa, and what impact did this process have on US foreign policy in this area of the Third World?'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-29: Elisabeth Leake, 'Afghan Crucible'
'What happens when the refugee (the 'muhajir') gets recognized as the outsider ('khareji')? What do we make of a nation that is formed in the “crucible” of modernity?''
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-28: Lieber, 'Indispensable Nation'
'Lieber sets out to make the case for a prudent American leadership, one that is wise in the tools it uses and skeptical about the siren song of neo-isolationism.'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable III-2: NATO and Nuclear Disarmament
'Just as there are many ways of being a member of NATO, there are different ways to work for nuclear disarmament.'
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Article Review 167: James W. Davis on Janice Stein, “Escalation Management in Ukraine”
'For the average person, indeed, for most sane people, nuclear war is simply unthinkable. And yet, many of us continue to worry.'
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