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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 8h

Review 143
Steven M. Gillon Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush
Trump's presidency will be a "record for the longest period that America has been led by presidents who did not serve in war”–John Nagl
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Jervis Forum Review 143: Nagl on Gillon, Presidents at War

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 143 Steven M. Gillon. Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 9h

Article Review 183
Diplomatic Departures: Negotiating Britain’s International Outreach in the Contemporary World
“relevance [with] diverging views between the Global North and South over who is the instigator in both the Russian-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars” –Daniel Feather
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Jervis Forum Article Review 183: Feather on “Diplomatic Departures”

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Article Review 183 “Diplomatic Departures: Negotiating Britain’s International Outreach in the Contemporary World.

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 2d

Roundtable Review 17-7
Lauren Benton’s They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
“Imperial powers permitted conquest if it prevented global war. Peace often meant war, at least on a liminal scale. The modern world...cannot, escape imperial violence.” –Michael Brenes
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-7 on Benton, They Called it Peace

Roundtable Review 17-7 Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton University Press, 2024). ISBN: 9780691248479. 6 October 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt17-7 |...

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 5d

Roundtable Review 17-6
Alexander B. Downes’ Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong
“makes one of its most important contributions by putting the regime-change failures Iraq and Afghanistan in broader comparative and historical context” –Erica De Bruin
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-6 on Downes, Catastrophic Success

Roundtable Review 17-6 Alexander B. Downes, Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong. Cornell University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781501761157. 3 October 2025 | PDF: https…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 6d

H-Diplo Review 642
Joseph Horowitz’s The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War
“highlights the value of international music exchanges for promoting recognition of the common humanity of peoples in different countries” –David S. Foglesong
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 7d

Jervis Forum Article Review 182
Aviva Guttmann’s “Covert Diplomacy to Overcome a Crisis: West German and Israeli Intelligence after the Munich Olympics Attack”
“[many claimed] that had Israel been allowed to manage the situation, it would have ended differently” –Ronit Berger Hobson
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Jervis Forum Article Review 182: Hobson on Guttmann, “Covert Diplomacy to Overcome a Crisis”

Article Review 182 Aviva Guttmann. “Covert Diplomacy to Overcome a Crisis: West German and Israeli Intelligence after the Munich Olympics Attack.” Journal of Cold War Studies 25:4 (Fall 2023): 101–126...

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 8d

Jervis Forum Article Review 181
James Stocker’s "Beginning of Winter: The George H.W. Bush Administration, the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, and the Emergence of the Post–Cold War World"
“illustrates the Armenian lobby’s effectiveness in shaping US policy” –Richard Balzano
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 9d

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-3
Jeffrey Crean’s The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History
“argues that fears of China over the past 140 years have been based on racialized stereotypes of the Chinese” –Zach Fredman
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 12d

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-5
David V. Gioe and Michael J. Morell's “Spy and Tell: The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage”
“under a new presidential administration…this article warrants renewed attention” – Melissa Graves
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-5 on Gioe and Morell, “Spy and Tell”

Roundtable Review 17-5 David V. Gioe and Michael J. Morell, “Spy and Tell: The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage,” Foreign Affairs 7:4 (2024): 138-152.

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 13d

Jervis Forum Review 142
Caroline Winterer’s How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America
“as Americans “dug little holes of time” across the continent, they enlarged certain political projects, using deep time to defend slavery and Indian removal” –Ryan Irwin
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 14d

H-Diplo Review 641
Ross Melnick’s Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
“explores the relationships between movies and empire” –Oliver Boyd-Barrett
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 15d

Jervis Forum Article Review 180
Mark Kramer’s “Borders, States, and Armed Conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia Since 1945: The Moral Hazard of Great-Power Encroachments”
“focuses on Russia’s aggressive foreign policy” –Oksana Ermolaeva
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The Jervis Forum Article Review 180: Ermolaeva on Kramer, “Borders, States, and Armed Conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia Since 1945”

Article Review 180 Mark Kramer. “Borders, States, and Armed Conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia Since 1945: The Moral Hazard of Great-Power Encroachments.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 50:4…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 16d

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-2
Mateo Jarquín: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History
“incentive to other historians to consider whether other Latin American events of the Cold War…[could] be re-imagined as Latin American global diplomatic events.” –Alan McPherson
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 19d

Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-4
Brian C. H. Fong’s US-China Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific
“outlines multiple scenarios for the future of US-China relations based on different systemic structures” –Yuan-kang Wang
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The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-4 on Fong, US-China Rivalry

Roundtable Review 17-4 Brian C. H. Fong. US-China Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781399534161 (Hardback). 19 September 2025 | PDF…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 20d

Article Review 179
Ronald Popp’s Predicting Trouble: Anticipating Foreign Crises and Planning for Contingencies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
Highlights “the prioritization of immediate policy implementation over long-term contingency planning” –Mary Ann Heiss
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Article Review 179: Heiss on Popp, “Predicting Trouble”

Roland Popp. “Predicting Trouble: Anticipating Foreign Crises and Planning for Contingencies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 35:4 (2024): 725-755. DOI: https://doi.

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 21d

H-Diplo Review 640
Matthew K. Shannon’s Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century
“Iranian nationalism emerged in many forms during the mid-twentieth century long before the Islamic revolution” –Tom Smith
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 22d

Jervis Forum Article Review 178
Andrew Kenealy's The Velvet Revolution’s Best Supporting Actors: Shirley Temple Black and U.S. Embassy Prague, 1989
“counters...periodically recurring waves of conspiracy theories” –Pavel Mücke
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The Jervis Forum Article Review 178: Mücke on Kenealy, “The Velvet Revolution’s Best Supporting Actors”

Article Review 178 Pavel Mücke, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences/Military History Institute Prague/Police Academy of the Czech Republic 16 September 2025 | PDF…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 23d

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3
Roger D. Petersen’s Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention
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“counterinsurgency and military intervention will not go away, despite any US desire to turn away from it” –Jacqueline L. Hazelton

The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3 on Petersen, Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Roger D. Petersen, Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9780197760741. 15 September 2025 | PDF…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 26d

Roundtable Review 17-2
Brian D. Blankenship’s The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics
“the risk to the United States of putting too much pressure on its allies without reassuring them—the United States loses its influence over them"–Michaela Mattes
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 27d

RJISSF Review 141
Aggie Hirst’s Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military
“players of war games are themselves being fundamentally changed by the games as they
play them." –Nina Kollars
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Jervis Forum Review 141: Kollars on Hirst, Politics of Play

olitics of Play is most easily understood as a political philosopher’s foray into the world of wargaming, specifically wargaming that is conducted for military analysis. In drawing these two elements…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 28d

RJISSF Review 140
David E. Sanger’s New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West
“convincingly links the developments in Taiwan to those in Ukraine.” –Anna Calori
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The Jervis Forum Review 140: Calori on Sanger, New Cold Wars

Anna Calori, University of Glasgow 10 September 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/R-140 | Website: rjissf.org X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social | Mastodon: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 29d

RJISSF Article Review 177
Rong Wei and Tim Summers’ The Chinese Government’s Negotiating Strategy Over the Future of Hong Kong: Revisiting the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration
“has ramifications which continue to affect present-day Hong Kong” –Reed Chervin
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The Jervis Forum Article Review 177: Chervin on Wei & Summers “The Chinese Government’s Negotiating Strategy Over the Future of Hong Kong”

Reed Chervin, US Naval War College 9 September 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/JAR-177 | Website: rjissf.org X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social | Mastodon: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse…

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · Sep 8

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-1
Antony G Hopkins’ Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931
“provides major revisions to our understanding of the historiography of colonial capitalism and the fortunes of African merchants” –Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · Sep 5

RJISSF Article Review 176: Robin E. Möser’s ‘A Fly in the Ointment’: Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network during the Cold War, 1953-1976
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The Jervis Forum Article Review 176: Rabinowitz on Möser “‘A Fly in the Ointment’”

Or Rabinowitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 5 September 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/JAR-176 | Website: rjissf.org X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social | Mastodon: @HDiplo Editor: Diane...

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Article Review 639: Jeffrey Ahlman’s Ghana: A Political and Social History
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