ROUNDTABLE REVIEWS
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.
Author: Nicholas J. Cull
Title: The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989
Reviewers: Laura A. Belmonte, Susan L. Carruthers, Richard Fried, Michael L. Krenn, Kenneth Osgood
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
Volume I (2000) | Volume II (2001) | Volume III (2002) | Volume IV (2003) | Volume V (2004) | Volume VI (2005) | Volume VII (2006) | Volume VIII (2007) | Volume IX (2008) | Volume X (2009)
Post-August 2009 Series Roundtables are listed below in reverse-chronological order:
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
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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
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
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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
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
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Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Matthew Jacobs, Arlene Lazarowitz, Douglas Little, Benny Miller
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
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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
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
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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.
"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)
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Roundtable Review [PDF]- Edited by Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse. Introduction by Thomas Maddux. Reviewers: Alan Dobson, Roger Horowitz, Kathleen Rasmussen, David Webster.
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction and Review (Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University) [H-Net]
- Review (Robert Jervis, Columbia University) [H-Net]
- Review (Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University) [H-Net]
- Review (Marilyn Young, New York University) [H-Net]
- Author's Response (Fredrik Logevall, University of California, Santa Barbara) [Logs]
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (William Keylor, Boston University) [H-Net]
- Review (Igor Lukes, Boston University) [H-Net]
- Review (Sally Marks, Providence, Rhode Island) [H-Net]
- Review (Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg) [H-Net]
- Author's Response (Michael J. Carley, University of Akron) [Logs]
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University) [H-Net]
- Review (David Kaiser, Naval War College) [H-Net]
- Review (Edwin Moise, Clemson University) [H-Net]
- Review (Qiang Zhai, Auburn University at Montgomery) [H-Net]
- Author's Response (Jeffrey P. Kimball, Miami University, Ohio) [Logs]
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction/Review (Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University) [H-Net]
- Review (Edwin Moise, Clemson University) [H-Net]
- Review (George C. Herring, University of Kentucky) [H-Net]
- Author's Response (David Kaiser, Naval War College) [Logs] -NOTE: Scroll down to find Prof. Kaiser's comments.
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
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
- Review (Diane Shaver Clemens, University of California, Berkeley) [H-Net]
- Review (Thomas R. Maddux, California State University, Northridge) [H-Net]
- Review (Tony Smith, Tufts University) [H-Net]
- Review (Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics) [H-Net]
- Author's Response (Marc Trachtenberg, University of Pennsylvania) [Logs]
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
Joel Blatt, ed. The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments. Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998.
Posted to H-Diplo on 3 October 2000
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Sally Marks, Rhode Island College) [Logs]
- Review (Paul de Quenoy, Georgetown University) [Logs]
- Review (Samuel Goodfellow, Westminster College) [Logs]
- Review (Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick) [Logs]
- Review (Eugenia C. Kiesling United States Military Academy Military History Institute/United States Army War College) [Logs]
- Review (Peter Jackson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth) [Logs]
- No Author's Response or List member responses currently on file for this roundtable discussion.
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Gerald Horne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) [Logs]
- Review (Robert Dean) [Logs]
- Review (Andy DeRoche) [Logs]
- Review (Mark Lawrence, the University of Texas at Austin) [Logs]
- Review (Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine) [Logs]
- Author's Response (Tony Smith, Tufts University) [Logs]
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (William R. Keylor, Boston University) [Logs]
- Review (Robert K. Hanks, University of Toronto) [Logs]
- Review (William D. Irvine, York University) [Logs]
- Review (Gordon Martel, University of Northern British Columbia) [Logs]
- Review (David Stevenson, London School of Economics and Political Science) [Logs]
- No Author's Response or List Member Responses on file for this roundtable.
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Schoonover, University of Louisiana at Lafayette) [Logs]
- Review (David Healy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) [Logs]
- Review (John Belohlavek, University of South Florida) [Logs]
- Review (Jurgen Buchenau, UNC Charlotte) [Logs]
- Review (Paul Dosal, University of South Florida) [Logs]
- Review (Seth Fein, Georgia State University) [Logs]
- Review (Aissatou Sy-Wonyu, University of Rouen, France) [Logs]
- Author's Response (David Pletcher, Indiana University) [Logs]
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas R. Maddux, California State University, Northridge) [Logs]
- Review (Tsuneo Akaha, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies) [Logs]
- Review (Tuomas Forsberg, Finnish Institute of International Affairs) [Logs]
- Review (Peggy Meyer, Simon Fraser University) [Logs]
- Review (Alexei Zagorsky, Nanzan University, Nagoya) [Logs]
- Author's Response (Hiroshi Kimura) [Logs]
- Author's Response (Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara) [Logs]
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas R. Maddux, California State University, Northridge) [Logs]
- Review (William Stueck, University of Georgia) [Logs]
- Review (Vladislav Zubok, Temple University) [Logs]
- Review (Andrew Rotter, Colgate University) [Logs]
- Review (Eduard Mark, Department of the Air Force) [Logs]
- Review (Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University) [Logs]
- Review (Mark S. Byrnes, Wofford College) [Logs]
- Author's Response (Arnold Offner, Lafayette College) [Logs]
- List member responses to this roundtable discussion (if experiencing difficulties with this link, please run a manual search of the H-Diplo Discussion Logs).
Julian Jackson. France: The Dark Years 1940-1944. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Published by H-Diplo on 1 September 2003
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Peter Jackson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth) [Logs]
- Review (Jackie Clarke, University of Southampton) [Logs]
- Review (Rod Kedward, School of European Studies, University of Sussex) [Logs]
- Review (Simon Kitson, University of Birmingham) [Logs]
- Review (Peter Jackson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth) [Logs]
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
- Review (Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University) [PDF]
- Review (Greg Grandin, New York University) [PDF]
- Review (T. Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University) [PDF]
- Roundtable Editor's Remarks (David S. Painter, Georgetown University) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison) [PDF]
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Martin Thomas, Exeter University) [PDF]
- Review (Peter Jackson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth) [PDF]
- Review (Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick) [PDF]
- Review (Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota) [PDF]
- Review (Douglas Porch, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Simon Kitson, University of Birmingham) [PDF]
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Talbot Imlay, Professor, Université Laval) [PDF]
- Review (Irwin Wall, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, New York University, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside) [PDF]
- Review (Kim Munholland, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota) [PDF]
- Review (William A. Hoisington, Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago) [PDF]
- Review (Robert Aldrich, Associate Professor, University of Sydney) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Martin Thomas, Exeter University) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Eric T. Jennings, University of Toronto) [PDF]
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
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (William R. Keylor, Boston University) [PDF]
- Review (Charles Cogan, Harvard University) [PDF]
- Review (Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin) [PDF]
- Review (Irwin Wall, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, New York University, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Kim Munholland, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota) [PDF]
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)
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, CSU Northridge) [PDF]
- Review (Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University) [PDF]
- Review (Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland, College Park) [PDF]
- Review (Richard Frank, Independent Scholar) [PDF]
- Review (David Holloway, Stanford University) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara) [PDF]
- Review (Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University) [PDF]
- Author's Reply to Bernstein (Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara) [PDF]
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.
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, CSU Northridge) [PDF]
- Review (Anne Foster, Indiana State University) [PDF]
- Review (Shawn McHale, George Washington University) [PDF]
- Review (Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Harvard University) [PDF]
- Review (Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) [PDF]
- Review (Martin Thomas, Exeter University) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin) [PDF]
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.
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, CSU Northridge) [PDF]
- Review (Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University) [PDF]
- Review (Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University) [PDF]
- Review (Tom Nichols, Naval War College) [PDF]
- Review (Melvin Small, Wayne State University) [PDF]
- Review (Randall Woods, University of Arkansas) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Eric Alterman, Brooklyn College, City University of New York) [PDF]
Bruce Kuklick. Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. Princeton University Press, 2006.
Published by H-Diplo on 7 September 2006.
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, CSUN Northridge) [PDF]
- Review (Robert Jervis, Columbia University) [PDF]
- Review (Charles Maier, Harvard University) [PDF]
- Review (Anders Stephanson, Columbia University) [PDF]
- Review (Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, Madison) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania) [PDF]
Charles S. Maier. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Published by H-Diplo on 19 October 2006.
- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, CSUN Northridge) [PDF]
- Review (Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University) [PDF]
- Review (Michael Hunt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) [PDF]
- Review (Anna K. Nelson, American University) [PDF]
- Author's Response (Charles Maier, Harvard University) [PDF]
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.
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- Roundtable Chair's Introduction (Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham)
- Review (Sarah-Jane Corke, Dalhousie University)
- Review (Chris Tudda, State Department, Office of the Historian)*
- Review (Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach)
- Author's Response (Kenneth Osgood, Visiting Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History,
University College Dublin, and Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University)
(*) 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.
Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns, eds. The Eisenhower Administration, The Third World, and Globalization. (2006).
Published by H-Diplo on 6 March 2007.
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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University)
- Review (Brian Etheridge, Louisiana Tech University)
- Review (Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University)
- Review (Christopher Tudda, State Department, Office of the Historian)*
- Response from Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns
(*) 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.
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress)
- Review (Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida)
- Review (Deborah Larson, University of California, Los Angeles)
- Review (Doug Macdonald, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
- Review (James I. Matray, California State University, Chico)
- Author's Response (Robert Beisner, Emeritus Professor, American University
Robert Kagan. Dangerous Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006.
Published by H-Diplo on 29 April 2007.
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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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans)
- Review (Christian Hacke, Institute für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie, Bonn, Germany)
- Review (Donal O’Sullivan, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (George Schild, University of Tübingen)
- Review (Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University)
- Author’s Response (Klaus Schwabe, Emeritus, Aachen University of Technology)
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (James Carter, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
- Review (Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University)
- Review (Edward Miller, Dartmouth College)
- Review (Joseph G. Morgan, Iona College)
- Author’s Response (Seth Jacobs, Boston College)
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (Jessica Chapman, University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Review (Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University)
- Review (James McAllister, Williams College)
- Review (William Stueck, University of Georgia)
- Author’s Response (Mark Moyar)
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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- Introduction (Warren F. Kimball, Rutgers University)
- Review (Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, University of Warwick)
- Review (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review (Constantine Pleshakov, Mount Holyoke College)
- Review (Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina)
- Review (Vladislav Zubok, Temple University)
- Author’s Response (Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork)
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
- Review by Alonzo L. Hamby, Ohio University
- Review by Robert Jervis, Columbia University
- Review of Eduard Mark, Department of the Air Force
- Review by Chester Pach, Ohio University
- Review by David S. Painter, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- Author's Response by Wilson D. (Bill) Miscamble, C.S.C., History Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (David A. Welch, University of Toronto)
- Review by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva)
- Review by Yafeng Xia, Long Island University, Brooklyn
- Review by Jeffrey P. Kimball, Miami University (Ohio)
- Review by Lorenz M. Lüthi, McGill University
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Kathleen Burk, University College London
- Review by Alex Danchev, University of Nottingham
- Review by Theodore A. Wilson, University of Kansas
- Review by Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University
- Author's Response by Mark Stoler, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute)
- Review by Cylvie Claveau, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. (translated by Pierre Henrichon)
- Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College
- Review by Talbot C. Imlay, Université Laval, Québec
- Review by Norman Ingram, Department of History, Concordia University, Montreal
- Review by Wendy Perry, University of Virginia
- Review by David L. Schalk, Kenan Professor of History, Emeritus, Vassar College
- Author’s Response by William D. Irvine, York University
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Jerald A. Combs, San Francisco State University
- Review by William Hitchcock, Temple University
- Review by David S. Painter, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- Review by Natalia Yegorova, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Author’s Response by Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics and Political Science
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Campbell Craig, University of Southampton
- Review by Hope M. Harrison, The George Washington University
- Review by Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University
- Review by Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
- Author's Response by Aleksandr Fursenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
- Author’s Response by Timothy Naftali, Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Robert Jervis, Columbia University
- Review by Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
- Review by Doug Macdonald, Colgate University
- Review by Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Tufts University
- Author’s Response by Tony Smith, Tufts University
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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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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Patrick Finney, Aberystwyth University)
- Review by Antony Best, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Review by John Ferris, University of Calgary
- Review by Petra Goedde, Temple University
- Review by Geoff Roberts, University College Cork
- Author’s Response by Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
- Review by Alfred E. Eckes, Ohio University
- Review by Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas
- Review by Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Author’s Response by Michael H. Hunt, University of North Carolina
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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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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder)
- Review by Heather L. Dichter, University of Toronto
- Review by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, Department of History, Michigan State University
- Review by Steven W. Pope, University of Lincoln
- Author's Response by Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by James Goldgeier, George Washington University/Council on Foreign Relations
- Review by Michael Mazarr, U.S. National War College
- Review by Tony Smith, Tufts University
- Review by Nicholas Thompson, New America Foundation
- Author's Response by Philip Gordon, Brookings Institution
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Philip E. Catton, Stephen F. Austin State University
- Review by Laurent Cesari, University of Artois (Arras, France)
- Review by Michael H. Creswell, Florida State University
- Review by Ginger R. Davis, Temple University
- Author's Response by Kathryn C. Statler, University of San Diego
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by John L. Harper, the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
- Review by Geir Lundestad, Norwegian Nobel Institute
- Review by Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Claremont McKenna College
- Review by Jeremi Suri, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Author's Response by Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Walter L. Hixson, University of Akron
- Review by Deborah Welch Larson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Review by Katherine A.S. Sibley, St. Joseph's University
- Review by Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)
- Author's Response by David S. Foglesong, Rutgers University
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Christopher L. Ball, H-Diplo
- Review by John Milton Cooper, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Review by Ross Kennedy, Illinois State University
- Review by Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine
- Review by Klaus Schwabe, Emeritus, Aachen University of Technology
- Author's Response by Robert W. Tucker
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne
- Review by Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong
- Review by James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago
- Review by Yafeng Xia, Long Island University
- Author's Response by Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by Jerald A. Combs, Emeritus, San Francisco State University
- Review by Seth Cotlar, Willamette University
- Review by Matthew Rainbow Hale, Goucher College
- Review by Matt Schumann, Eastern Michigan University
- Review by William Earl Weeks, University of California, San Diego
- Author's Response by Todd Estes, Associate Professor, Oakland University
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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- Roundtable Editor's Introduction (Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge)
- Review by A. Tom Grunfeld, Empire State College, State University of New York
- Review by Steven I. Levine, University of Montana
- Review by Jing-dong Yuan, Monterey Institute of International Studies, an affiliate of Middlebury College
- Author's Response by Parshotam Mehra, Emeritus Professor of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
"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.
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
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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
