The H-Diplo DiscussionNETWORK is a moderated, electronic list with over 4,600 subscribers who discuss foreign relations history, broadly defined. The list has a companion RSS feed and full online archives of all content dating back to 1993. (more»)

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We commission scholarly reviews of academic articles on topics in foreign relations history cover both print and online-only journals, including Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, and History Compass. (more»)

Reviewer: Thomas J. Noer
Article Author: Ryan M. Irwin
Journal Issue: Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 246- "A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963"
Publication Date: 27 October 2009

Reviewer: Hongshan Li
Article Author: Hua-yu Li
Journal Issue: Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring 2009)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 245 (Revision B)- "Reactions of Chinese Citizens to the Death of Stalin, International Communist Party Reports."
Publication Date: 22 October 2009

Reviewer: Nicole M. Phelps
Article Author: Alison Fleig Frank
Journal Issue: American Historical Review 114:1 (February 2009)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 244- "The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of Multinational Corporation."
Date: 9 October 2009

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Our roundtable reviews provide in-depth coverage of key works in foregn relations and diplomatic history. Every roundtable features a panel of distinguished specialists and, often, thoughtful replies from the authors themselves. (more»)

Author: James Mann
Title: The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
Reviewers: Archie Brown, Beth A. Fischer, Kyle Longley, Joseph M. Siracusa

Author: Patrick Tyler
Title: A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East-from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Reviewers: Matthew Jacobs, Arlene Lazarowitz, Douglas Little, Benny Miller

Author: Louis A. Perez Jr.
Title: Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
Reviewers: Dennis Merrill, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Thomas Schoonover, Wayne S. Smith

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H-Diplo participates in the H-Net Book Reviews program and reviews books on foreign relations history, broadly defined, including monographs, primary source collections, and essay collections. We also publish some specialized reviews such as our roundtable reviews and capsule booknotes. (more»)

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Reviewer: Jacqueline Swansinger
Title: The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
Author: Jeremy Salt

Reviewer: Nikolas Gvosdev
Title: A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Author: Vladislav M. Zubok

Reviewer: Robert Robinson
Title: Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960
Author: Bradley Lynn Coleman

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The Spotlight is an H-Diplo column designed to stimulate a dialogue about the contours of “international history.” Who are “international” historians, and what are they writing? How are the methodologies and lines of inquiry unfolding? As an Internet-based source of commentary and analysis, the IHS aims to use the flexibility of an electronic format to draw attention to a wide range of materials – research programs, journal articles, and even web sites of potential interest to list members. (more»)

IHS 2007, No. 1- What did the League do, exactly?

H-Diplo essays range from state of the field thoughtpieces to extended critiques of selected works to retrospectives on noteworthy historical figures. (more»)

Essayist: Yafeng Xia
Title: Review Essay of Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun. The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics during the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976
Publication Date: 12 October 2009

Essayist: Peter John Brobst
Title: Review Essay of Martin Thomas. Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914
Publication Date: 17 September 2009

Essayists: Yafeng Xia
Title: Review Essay of Gao Wenqian. Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, A Biography. Translated by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2007. xiv + 345 pp. US $ 27.95 (hardcover).
Publication Date: 29 July 2009

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