ISSF SERIES


The ISSF Series is a partnership between H-Diplo and the International Security Studies Forum. This series is made possible by the support of the International Security Studies Forum (ISSF), a partnership between the International Studies Association's Security Studies Section and the journals International Security, Security Studies, and the Journal of Strategic Studies. You can browse recent ISSF/H-Diplo Publications below or search the archives using the keyword, ISSF. SEARCH


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro, eds. In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (2011)
30 April 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Loch K. Johnson. The Threat on the Horizon: An Inside Account of America's Search for Security after the Cold War
23 April 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Review Essay on Samuel Moyn. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

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Michael Barnett. Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism
20 April 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Bruce W. Bennett and Jennifer Lind. "The Collapse of North Korea: Military Missions and Requirements." International Security 36: 2 (Fall 2011): 84-119.
13 April 2012

Response to H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review, 2012: 3 on Nicolas Guilhot’s “Cyborg Pantocrator: International Relations Theory from Decisionism to Rational Choice.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 47:3 (Summer 2011)
by John Prados
3 April 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Nicolas Guilhot. "Cyborg Pantocrator: International Relations Theory From Decisionism to Rational Choice." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 47:3 (Summer 2011)
31 March 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review of Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent. "Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment." International Security 35:4 (Spring 2011)
23 March 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Thomas J. Christensen. Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia (2011)
7 March 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Michael C. Horowitz. The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Relations (2010)
29 February 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Dominic Tierney. How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires and the American Way of War (2010)
22 February 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review on Thomas C. Field, Jr. "Ideology as Strategy: Military-led Modernization and the Origins of the Alliance for Progress in Bolivia." Diplomatic History 36:1 (January 2012)
20 February 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Elizabeth N. Saunders. Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions (2011)
15 February 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Richard Ned Lebow. A Cultural Theory of International Relations (2009)
9 February 2012

H-Diplo/ISSF Article Roundtable Review of Special Issue on "The CIA and U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1947: Reforms, Reflections and Reappraisals," Intelligence and National Security 26:2-3 (April-June 2011)
14 December 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review on "Special Forum: Genocide, War Crimes, and International Justice," Diplomatic History 35:5 (November 2011)
12 December 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtalbe Review of Nicolas Guilhot (ed.). The Invention of International Relations Theory; Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation and the 1954 Conference on Theory (2011)
9 November 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review on Michael E. Latham. The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present (2010)
10 October 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Frank Ninkovich. Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865-1890 (2009)
26 September 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on Michaela Hoenicke Moore. Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945
21 September 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable on John Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
1 September 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Review of Joseph Maiolo. Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941
11 July 2011

H-Diplo/ISSF Exchange on Democracy and Victory (a H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable)
1 July 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable Review of David C. Engerman. Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (2009)
29 June 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable Review of Shane J. Maddock. Nuclear Apartheid: The Quest for Atomic Supremacy From World War II to the Present (2010)
17 June 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable Review of James Lebovic. The Limits of U.S. Military Capability: Lessons from Vietnam and Iraq (2010)
13 June 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Rountable on Audrey Kurth Cronin. How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns (2009)
10 June 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Rountable on Mark Philip Bradley. Vietnam at War (2009)
22 May 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable on Patrick Lennox. At Home and Abroad: The Canada-US Relationship and Canada's Place in the World (2010)
16 May 2011

H-Diplo | ISSF Article Review on Elizabeth Borgwardt. "Commerce and Complicity: Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses as a Legacy of Nuremberg." Bernath Lecture, 2010. Diplomatic History 34:4 (September 2010): 627-640
15 April 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

H-Diplo | ISSF Article Review on Jacqueline Newmyer, "The Revolution in Military Affairs with Chinese Characteristics," Journal of Strategic Studies 33:4 (2010): 483-504
8 April 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable Review, Vol. II, No. 6, of Jeffrey G. Barlow, From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 (2009)
25 March 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable Review, Vol. II, No. 5, of Vincent Pouliot. International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy (2010)
14 March 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable Review, Vol. II, No. 4, on "Is Liberal Internationalism in Decline?"
27 February 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

Richard Immerman. Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
14 February 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

Gordon M. Goldstein. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.

Andrew Preston. The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC and Vietnam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Review by Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College

Review by John Prados, National Security Archive

11 February 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Forum

Michael S. Gerson, "No First Use: The Next Step for U.S. Nuclear Policy," International Security 33:2 (2010)
Joshua Ronver
4 February 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

Julian E. Zelizer. Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - from World War II to the War on Terror
14 January 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

Justin Vaïsse. Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement
7 January 2011 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

America and the Cold War, 1941-1991
Norman Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa
10 December 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb
Andrew J. Rotter
3 December 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era
Mai Elliott
1 December 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

French Foreign Policy in the July Crisis, 1914: A Review Article
Marc Trachtenberg
26 November 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War
Andrew Johns
22 November 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Nicholas Thompson
15 November 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

Is Anybody Not an (International Relations) Liberal?
Brian C. Rathbun
28 July 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

Saddam’s Perceptions and Misperceptions: The Case of 'Desert Storm'
Kevin M. Woods and Mark E. Stout
2 July 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

Politics and Scholarship
Robert Jervis
4 June 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

The Deception Dividend: FDR’s Undeclared War
John M. Schuessler
8 April 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

Biology and Security
Rose McDermott and Peter K. Hatemi
30 March 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Roundtable

We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy
Gautam Mukunda
19 March 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War
John Mueller
18 March 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Article Review

International Politics and Diplomatic History: Fruitful Differences
Robert Jervis
12 March 2010 | H-Diplo ISSF Essay

The ISSF Series is a partnership between H-Diplo and the International Security Studies Forum.  We thank all of the ISSF sponsoring institutions and organizations, a complete list of which can be found on the ISSF website.  

H-Diplo would also like to thank the following scholars for initiating, supporting, and coordinating the ISSF project:

Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs Columbia University; Co-editor, Security Studies Series, Cornell University Press; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sean Lynn-Jones, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Editor, International Security; Series Editor, Belfer Center Studies in International Security

T.V. Paul. James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University; Director of the McGill University—Université de Montreal Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS); Chair of the International Security Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA).

William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor of Government, Dartmouth; Editor-in-Chief, Security Studies.

This series launched with an essay by Robert Jervis on International Politics and Diplomatic History: Fruitful Differences.

H-Diplo has had an interdisciplinary focus on diplomatic history and international politics since its founding in 1993. This new project on international security studies furthers the connection between the academic disciplines of diplomatic history and international relations.

H-Diplo welcomes expression of interest from scholars who wish to review for this new project. We especially welcome those who have experience both in diplomatic history and international relations. Reviewers must be post-comprehensive exam graduate students or have considerable professional experience. Please e-mail a short CV and a description of your area of interest to ISSF managing and commissioning editor, Christopher Ball -- ball@mail.h-net.msu.edu.