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Diplomatic History
Interviews with scholars of diplomatic history about their new books.
November 26, 2024
Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah
The exceptional opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in 2020 did not end the controversies surrounding the silence of th…
November 26, 2024
A World of Enemies
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-…
November 24, 2024
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
Recent developments in the Middle East have raised concern about the potential for a wider regional war. What do escalating tensions in Gaza, Lebanon…
November 19, 2024
The Eastern International
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the interna…
November 8, 2024
Landing the Paris Climate Agreement
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 201…
November 7, 2024
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…
October 24, 2024
Dear Unknown Friend
In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other …
October 24, 2024
Nehru's Bandung
In 1955, the leaders of 29 Asian and African countries flock to the small city of Bandung, Indonesia, for the first-ever Afro-Asian conference. India …
October 23, 2024
India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
What is the role of India in the Second Cold War (SCW) in South Asia? How do local histories, internal politics, and subnational dynamics shape relati…
October 22, 2024
Fighting Terror after Napoleon
After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat i…
October 19, 2024
Hispano Bastion
In Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press, 2023), historian Dr. Michael J. Alar…
October 19, 2024
Illusions of Control
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critic…
October 14, 2024
Tecumseh's War
The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to 1815. In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Lalawet…
October 11, 2024
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China
The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empir…
October 9, 2024
The Fragility of China
In this episode of Madison's Notes, we sit down with Dennis Unkovic to discuss his latest book, The Fragility of China (Encounter Books, 2024). Unkovi…
October 9, 2024
The Tormented Alliance
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (UNC Press, 2022) explores the wartime partnership between China an…
October 8, 2024
The UN Security Council and Its Protective Function
This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews Bertrand Ramcharan, former top UN diplomat and author of the recent book, The…
October 6, 2024
The Eastern Front
Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its sca…
October 5, 2024
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the mom…
October 5, 2024
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migrat…